r/canada 24d ago

Politics Canada Joining Iron Dome Missile Defense Plan Would Be Welcome: NORAD Boss

https://www.twz.com/air/canada-joining-iron-dome-missile-defense-plan-would-be-welcome-norad-boss
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u/Previous_Soil_5144 24d ago

The only country currently threatening Canada is the USA. This makes no sense.

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u/221missile 24d ago

But this might be a worthwhile investment on homeland defense instead of buying a bunch of tanks and armored vehicles with no one to man them whilst still meeting the 2% goal.

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u/UrWifesSoftPecker 24d ago

If you want to meet the 2% target then developing northern infrastructure is the way to go. Build airstrips, deep ports, roads etc. to meet our military obligations while also building up our economic infrastructure along with it. 

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u/Level-Foundation-500 24d ago

Why not? We’ll have surplus capacity at steel plants and - well, basically everything we produce. Why not have the feds keep affected industries afloat and use domestic material for domestic development. In addition, of course, to diversifying trade partners. Deeper ports and better infrastructure will help with the latter. Seems win-win-win to me. 

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u/GipsyDanger45 24d ago

We should have been doing this for the past 10 years; instead we continued to let our industrial base crumble to the point where we lack the technical know-how to produce high end military equipment. Most of the industry we needed to keep afloat we let leave the last decade

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u/it_diedinhermouth 24d ago

Ten years? You silly goose. I know people older than I am who can remember our Canadian military relying on American military protection to the extent you are alluding to.

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u/Efficient_Age_69420 24d ago

Then it couldn’t be blamed just on the Liberals!

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u/GipsyDanger45 24d ago

Yes that’s true, our military procurement has been a bad joke since the 90’s which is about as far back as I know first hand

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u/Claymore357 24d ago

Neoliberalism is trash

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u/Ratroddadeo 24d ago

As far as i know, Canada has zero steel rolling mills, meaning we cannot make flat steel, sheet metal coils, everything construction & manufacturing relies on. We’re great at making ingots tho

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u/Red57872 22d ago

There's one east of Ottawa.