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[–] athos77@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 ....

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] small_crow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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.