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Originally Posted by MarchHare
How do you define "ruining"? I happened to serve in the Canadian Forces (in the Reserves) from 1998-2002, and I would hardly call it "ruined". If you mean to say that the Liberals reduced military spending...well of course they did, along with virtually every NATO country, including the United States. The Cold War was over, so armed forces everywhere were downsizing.
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I'll argue that, it was ruined, and the Liberal destruction combined with Conservative inattention under BM caused the spending bump that we're seeing now that we actually deployed.
And it was beyond a downsizing of spending, it was utterly ridiculous and grossly negligent that the government was still deploying members while spending so little on at least trying to equip t the forces to actually achieve their mission either internationally or domestically.
The Liberal's under Trudeau and Chretien and to an extent Martin tried to murder something that they hated and that was the Canadian Forces.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Yes, the Harper government is fiscally conservative (I never said otherwise), but unlike the Chretien/Martin Liberals, they are most definitely NOT socially liberal, which was the point I was making in response to mesaywee's desire for a party that was neither 100% conservative nor 100% liberal.
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Being completely socially liberal is not a good thing just as being completely socially conservative is not a good thing. But I think that both sides like to label their opposing parties as such just so they can feel better about their views.