• athos77@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, Trudeau has already said that Canada will never do 2% GDP in defense spending. And while Canada has been under increasing pressure to meet the 2% target since the invasion of Ukraine, all they’ve actually been doing is trying to change the definition of what counts toward “defence spending”: oh, can we count research into artificial intelligence as ‘defense spending’? what about space research? we’re already including pensions, so that’s good

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      1 year ago

      How about putting out wild fires. It’s that a defense expense?

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        1 year ago

        Only if we start calling it the War on Climate Change and I just can’t see our government taking such a hard stance on the environment.