You have a choice, you can either consistently spend a 2% and actually put in a planned military road map that rotates equipment upgrades and purchases and recruiting.
Or you can do what this country idiotically does in which they ignore it until it becomes a emergency and then people complain at the exorbitant costs involved in fixing it.
Canada's been incredibly fortunate in terms of service related death due to poor equipment going far past the end of life.
Canada was fortunate that the casualties were so low at the start of the Afghanistan campaign.
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