Scrap fighter-jet purchase plan
The Trudeau government’s F-35 purchase is a terrible waste of taxpayers’ money. First, these fighter jets aren’t designed primarily to defend Canada. Rather, they were developed to lock Canada into a U.S. military command structure for offensive NATO operations. Second, the lifetime costs of these war machines (plus those of purchasing new warships and drones) means ordinary Canadians will be denied financial, environmental and health security, as growing funds directed to military budgets means other budgets shrink.
What Canada really needs is a foreign policy independent of NATO and geared instead to peace and co-operation with all other countries on common threats to all humanity, namely pandemics and environmental collapse.
Ken Stone, Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War
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2023-01-06T08:00:00.0000000Z
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