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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.</p>
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Friday the <i>Ottawa
Citizen</i> 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.</p>
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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 <a
title="Protected by Outlook: https://winnipegsun.com/news/canada-launches-100-billion-submarine-acquisition-program. Click or tap to follow the link."
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submarines designed to
bolster Ottawa’s ability
to better assist the US
war machine.</p>
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day earlier the
Parliamentary Budget
Officer released a <a
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style="color: #3858e9; text-decoration: underline;">report</a> 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).”</p>
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style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.</p>
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.</p>
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style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.</p>
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.</p>
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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:</p>
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">“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.”</p>
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style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.”</p>
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<p class="xp1"
style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.”</p>
<p class="xp1"
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time for change.</p>
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