I think the appropriate foreign policy stance of a socialist nation like Canada is that of a strong, technologically advanced military presence with a stance of non-involvement.
I believe that the coastline and largely uninhabited regions of Canada require a technologically advanced Naval and Air Force presence. Force multiplication should be the order of the day.
Canada should implement at the Federal level, a regional research and production program for armaments and related technologies to supply NATO allies. Applied science should become a large part of military expenditures and should be the start of any opening of the public purse.
Canada should completely disengage from any current international entanglements to provide the current enlisted personnel a moment of reprieve to allow a period of information exchange and military re-alignment. With recent guerrilla experience, a reformation of military policy to train more, smaller, tactically advanced units should come now, while commanders are fresh from the battlefield.
Finally, the Coast Guard should be significantly augmented by the newly funded military apparatus.
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