Highlights from ‘fast-track’ Carney’s major defence pledge
Prime Minister Mark ‘fast-track’ Carney says the government will be shelling out over $9.3-billion in more funding to hit NATO’s two-per-cent target this fiscal year. Not delaying it to 2032, or even to 2030, the target he had pledged during his election campaign. Nearly a year ago, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau announced at the NATO […]
The high price of a handshake: Carney’s G7 Modi invite
If Canada cannot draw a line at political assassination on its own soil, where will we draw one?
Conservatives support extra money for military, says Poilievre
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How soon should we expect this ‘immediate’ military overhaul?
The defence minister said the feds will take ‘immediate and decisive action to rebuild Canada’s defence capacity’—but announced nothing further.
Canada should not join Trump’s Golden Dome
Joining the Golden Dome initiative would reinforce a common Canadian pattern of leaving the country’s protection against adversarial threats to other states. Under the Trump administration, the U.S. has proven to be an unreliable and uncertain partner for Canada.
Wildfires burning, and Canada still needs a national response agency
The argument still stands today: there are jurisdictional issues over emergency responses in Canada, but there needs to be better coordination between the federal, provincial and municipal governments and a better emergency preparedness plan. The federal government needs to establish one central emergency management agency for the entire country. As well, there should be one central agency for all volunteer organizations, as Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux suggested in last week in the House.
Liberals crack down on asylum seekers, boost search powers for security agencies in new bill
Bill C-2 outlines how and when Canadian authorities can get access to Canadians’ communications and personal data; where and when they can search packages, cargo, and mail; and what information is shared with American security agencies.
Defending North America with a difficult partner
The hard truth is that Canadians alone cannot defend the second-largest country in the world, which means doing it in concert with the Americans.
Peacekeeping not apace: feds’ spending plan for UN operations down 42 per cent from 2015-16
Global Affairs Canada is proposing a 15.7-per-cent decline from planned spending of $219.9-million in 2024-25, and a 42.7 per cent decline from the actual spending of $323.9-million in 2015-16.
The misadventures of Navy procurement
Successive governments routinely state ‘nothing is too good for our military,’ and therefore ‘nothing’ is what they get.
