{"id":312274,"date":"2017-06-11T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-to-hike-military-spending-by-70-percent-over-next-decade\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:01:40","slug":"canada-to-hike-military-spending-by-70-percent-over-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-to-hike-military-spending-by-70-percent-over-next-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to hike military spending by 70 percent over next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Canada to hike military spending by 70 percent over next decade<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Roger Jordan<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 June 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan presented a new defence policy Wednesday that calls for $62 billion in additional military spending over the next two decades. Coming just a day after Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland declared that Canada must use \u201chard power,\u201d the massive rearmament program makes clear that the Liberal government is determined to wage war in pursuit of Canadian imperialism\u2019s global interests and ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The new defence policy calls for an additional 5,000 troops, the purchase of 88 fighter jets rather than the 65 proposed by the previous government, 15 new warships, the purchase of armed drones for surveillance and combat, and billions of dollars\u2019 worth of additional armored and supply vehicles for the army. Under the policy, Canada\u2019s military will also develop a team of cybersecurity experts to conduct offensive online \u201cdisruption\u201d activities.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year in the making, the Liberal government\u2019s defence policy includes a 73 percent hike in military spending over the next decade. In dollar terms, the defence budget will climb from its current level of $18.9 billion to $32.7 billion in 2026-27. Most of the new funds are penciled in following 2021, but even before then, billions more will be spent on improving Canada\u2019s war capabilities. The increases will, according to the government\u2019s estimates, increase the defence budget to 1.4 percent of GDP, still below the NATO target of 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>There can be no doubting the aggressive intent behind the spending hikes. In her speech Tuesday, Freeland reaffirmed Canada\u2019s commitment to its strategic partnership with US imperialism and listed a series of potential adversaries, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/06\/10\/cawa-j10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Canada to hike military spending by 70 percent over next decade By Roger Jordan 10 June 2017 Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan presented a new defence policy Wednesday that calls for $62 billion in additional military spending over the next two decades. Coming just a day after Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland declared that Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-312274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}