[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Canadians ready for an anti-militarist NDP platform
Arthur Blomme
art at integralshift.ca
Thu Nov 6 10:01:06 PST 2025
War is the worst of evils.
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The dearth of NDP pushback to Mark Carney’s radical military turn is
remarkable. As the signs of Liberal warmongering grow, there’s barely a
murmur of opposition from the party to this threat to the world and
Canadian social programs. …
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The dearth of NDP pushback to Mark Carney’s radical military turn is
remarkable. As the signs of Liberal warmongering grow, there’s barely a
murmur of opposition from the party to this threat to the world and
Canadian social programs.
On Friday the /Ottawa Citizen/ reported on the military’s plan to expand
the reserve by a whopping 1300%. Reportedly, the armed forces have
established a “tiger team” to investigate how to boost the reserves to
400,000 personnel from the current reserve force of 28,000. This would
almost certainly require some type of a draft or mandatory military service.
On Thursday Carney visited a South Korean shipyard as part of a plan to
buy a dozen attack submarines. One of Canada’s largest ever
discretionary purchases, it will likely cost $100 billion
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for submarines designed to bolster Ottawa’s ability to better assist the
US war machine.
A day earlier the Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report
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on military capital spending finding a $108 billion boost. It reports,
“Under the federal government’s new defence policy, Our North, Strong
and Free: A Renewed Vision for Canada’s Defence (ONSAF), the Department
of National Defence (DND) is expected to spend $322.9 billion (on a cash
basis) over the next 20 years. This is $108.1 billion more than forecast
in the PBO’s 2024 report, which assessed capital spending under the
previous defence policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE).”
In addition to the submarines, the government is spending $80 billion on
surface combatant naval vessels equipped with long range Tomahawk
missiles. They are also putting up $20 billion for offense-oriented
fighter jets. In addition, Canada is spending billions of dollars on
heavily armed Reaper drones and LAVs. They may also spend billions of
dollars more to participate in Donald Trump’s Golden Dome air defence
system.
All this spending on the machines of war empowers the monsters (Carney,
Poilievre, Anand, and US-led military machine) who’ve enabled the live
streamed holocaust in Gaza. The new weapons will give them greater
capacity to intimidate and wage violence internationally, as the US is
doing in Venezuela and Canada has done repeatedly in recent decades.
As Carney plows ever more resources into warfare, he’s cutting back the
public service, gutting Canada Post, and letting important social
programs expire. On Tuesday Carney looks set to propose an austerity
budget for the working class while devoting staggering riches to the
military industrial complex. They’ve found tens of billions of dollars
for new military spending to placate Trump while cutting programs
benefiting low-income people.
World Beyond War Canada and 350.org put out an Action Network email
criticizing the budget and his plan to “quadruple Canadian military
spending to record-breaking levels and buy horrific American weapons
systems” while my NDP leadership campaign called on the party’s MPs to
“vote against Trump-inspired war and austerity budget.” In another sign
of pushback, last Friday activist Tamara Lorincz interrupted Defence
Minister David McGuinty to criticize his plan to spend $150 billion on
the military.
Unfortunately, the NDP’s statement on the budget is silent on increasing
military spending. The other candidates in the NDP leadership race have
also said little or nothing on the matter. Conversely, the platform for
my campaign calls to:
“Stop Carneyʼs Militarization Project: ● Slash the defense budget. ●
Refuse participation in the Golden Dome project. ● Redirect funding for
the weapons industry to other non-destructive industries. Implement a
ʻDestructive Taxʼ: ● Penalize the key beneficiaries of warfare —
military and arms industries — to disincentive militaristic industry and
activities and pay for some of the social costs of their destruction.”
The platform also calls for “No More Military Contracts: ● Halt
procurement of F-35 fighter jets, armed drones, air surveillance
equipment, LAVs, APCs and AI for military applications, and other war
machinery. ● No more support for the production and sales of warships. ●
End subsidies, rebates and loans to firms creating and selling items for
military use.”
The introduction of the platform’s section on the military notes:
“Canadians today face wildfires destroying communities, a collapsing
public health system, and a deepening affordability crisis. Yet, in the
face of these emergencies, we are told our greatest threats come from
Russia and China. Public funds are increasingly redirected from social
programs to military expansion, as the government narrowly considers
ʻsafetyʼ only in terms of national security and preparations for war.
Instead of voicing an alternate and progressive vision, the current NDP
leadership has abandoned its historic verbal commitment to peace and
restraint by echoing warmongering narratives and pledging loyalty to
NATO, the U.S. empire, and the steady militarization of Canadian society.”
It’s time for change.
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all NDP MPs to vote against a budget for war -- and austerity for the
rest.
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