Canada’s Business Council is pushing to triple the country’s military spending while cutting other government programs. This strategy, tied to NATO commitments and US trade relations, would shift billions away from social programs toward defense contractors.
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It’s math. Instead of pretending the one side who is explicitly threatening to destroy us are “the good guys”. The real Canadian problem is having allowed the US to tell us who the bad guys were all along, so that in this moment, we’d have no friends, and we’d have people like you/CEO council, say how terrible any alternative response to submission is.