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Originally posted by kipperfan@Sep 25 2004, 09:51 PM
This is all a moot point, fact is, unless the Americans decide to come up north and attack(like we could stop em anyway!) Canada's military will NEVER be needed again. Unless you think we need those troops in Afghanistan?? I have no problem with sending peacekeepers, and cooperating with UN proposals, but for what possible reason do we need to pour tax payer money into military??
As it is, it looks like we are going to join hands with the Americans on the missile defence program, and if for some obscure reason a nation attacked Canada from the ground, the Americans would be here in minutes.
In this day in age, I want my money going to the education of our childern, the health of our citizens and social programs that help struggling candians. To spend billions of our money just to parade around a toy army is an exercise in futility.
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A) without any kind of military strenght you have no foreign policy position, you also have no strength in the UN security administration. you can continue to send money and hope its spend in the way that you want and thats it.
B) Why send peacekeepers if they can't support themselves, and aren't equiped properly.
C) Why pour tax payer money into the military? Beyond national defense and security and natural disastor and UN assistance why would we want to do that? Oh yeah because its important.
D) Do you want to have the Americans reacting to Canadian internal Security matters? And would they be in a big hurry to defend a weak nation that refuses to defend itself?
E) Its noble to say I would rather spend money on health and education. But the fact is that we are spending money on these areas. In fact we are spending more money then we need, but we're paying to support poor budget decisions, huge bearocracies and ineficent usage of dollars. There would be tonnes of money for all of these areas of concern if our government didn't spend money like a horny Canadian Business man on his first trip to the Phillipines