Why Canada shouldn’t heed Trump’s call to boost defence spending

Let’s remind him how much blood and gold we wasted supporting America’s failures in Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq.

Donald Trump, pictured speaking to supporters in Arizona on March 19, says he would get tough on allied freeloaders who have come to rely on the United States to protect them. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 11, 2016

OTTAWA—With Donald Trump being the last man standing in the Republican Party’s presidential candidate race, it would appear that even the most cynical among us must now brace ourselves for the very real possibility that this buffoon could soon be the leader of the free world. If we were in Mexi...

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