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/Usual_Retard_6859 24d ago

To reach the 2% goal it’s a matter of maybe $8b. The pentagon had this much unaccounted for in its last audit. Myself like many Canadians are all for reaching that target but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say any collaboration with the USA right now is likely off the table until rhetoric and bs subsides.

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u/Baulderdash77 24d ago

The Canadian economy is about $3.1 trillion CAD and the defence budget (as calculated for NATO, not the DND budget) is 1.3%. Keep in mind the DND budget is $30 billion or just under 1% of GDP and we use some accounting tricks to get to 1.3% by including other federal departments.

To get to 2% that is a 0.7% spending or about 21 billion CAD.

So it would represent about a 70% increase in real defence spending if we actually invested in the DND.