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Originally Posted by Northendzone
while i don't disagree with any of your points, issue becomes is what spending gets cut if military spending get increased?
healthcare needs more, infrastructure needs more....where dioes it all end?
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I think that you're question is backwards. As it stands in the grand scheme of things we're spending less then 1% of our GDP on defense. In other words, Healthcare and Infrastructure have already benefited from less the proper spending levels, and because of that the chickens have come home to roast due to the massive equipment replacement requirements that are happening at the same time.
Just to put it this way, due to neglect, Canada has to basically replace its navy, airforce and its light armored vehicles, trucks and transports and other systems due to badly underspending.
Right now in terms of per person spending, I think Canada is third in the world, so I don't think the solution is to keep throwing money into the well, as much as how can we actually make healthcare spending work. I think that infrastructure spending for the sake of infrastructure spending is the wrong strategy.
I think out of the departments in the government, you can fairly point at defense and say that its fairly dramatic in terms of underspending.
When the Liberals committed us to Afghanistan we saw how dramatic that was when we basically had to procure proper kit, new vehicle, new LAV, upgrade our logistics and heavy lift capability, and other things.