Canada Lags in Defense Spending

Canada.com has set up a beautiful site for the September 11 Anniversary. Today they posted an article with the headline “U.S. envoy slams low defense spending“. I would tend to agree.

Our armed forces are somewhat of a joke. That’s not due to the men and women who serve. They do the best they can and do us proud. However, they don’t have a heck of a lot to work with. The government needs to throw more money at defense, especially with the climate of terrorism ever on the rise. The forces have been recruiting like mad this year, but we need better equipment. What our soldiers are using now is marginally acceptable, at best, and mostly out of date. Canada doesn’t come close to measuring up to our NATO commitments militarily. We owe it to ourselves and our next door neighbours to firm up the lines of defense.