View of Canada’s approach to defence spending needs a wider lens

Several studies have shown that more jobs are created from expenditures on education, health care, and clean energy than from the same amount spent on defence.

It is Chrystia Freeland who is responsible for giving credence to the idea that Canada’s defence spending must increase, thanks to a 2017 speech in Parliament, when she was foreign minister, where she praised 'military power in defence of our principles and our alliances,’ writes Douglas Roche.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

April 16, 2021

John Ivison, a columnist for the National Post, is dangerously wrong when he asserts that Canada “should increase, not reduce” military spending in next week’s budget to counter new threats in the world. His

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