{"id":329930,"date":"2017-10-11T00:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-integrating-universities-into-its-militarist-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:24:43","slug":"canada-integrating-universities-into-its-militarist-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-integrating-universities-into-its-militarist-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada integrating universities into its militarist foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Canada integrating universities into its militarist foreign policy<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Laurent Lafrance<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>An important aim of the new national defence policy Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government announced last June is to integrate the country\u2019s universities more fully into the ruling class\u2019 aggressive and increasingly militarist foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>The 113-page defence policy document outlines policy changes to draw universities, individual academics, and \u201cpromising\u201d graduate students into playing a more important role in developing high-tech armaments and formulating strategy and propaganda for the aggressive assertion of Canadian imperialism\u2019s interests and ambitions around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The defence policy calls for a major rearmament program as well as the \u201cmodernization\u201d of NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defence Command), in furtherance of the Canadian Armed Forces\u2019 participation in ongoing and future US-led wars around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The real objective of the policy was made clear by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in early June when she said Canada must be ready to use \u201chard power,\u201d i.e. wage war, to defend its interests under conditions of growing \u201cthreats\u201d arising from the rise of China, \u201cRussian expansionism,\u201d and the collapse in popular support for the US-led world capitalist order.<\/p>\n<p>The document commits the government to a $62 billion increase in military spending over the next two decades, including a 73 percent hike in the next 10 years, which will boost the annual defence budget from its current level of $18.9 billion to $32.7 billion in 2026-27. It includes plans for an additional 5,000 troops, the purchase of 88 fighter jets rather than the 65 proposed by the previous Conservative government, 15 new warships, the procurement of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/10\/cadp-o10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Canada integrating universities into its militarist foreign policy By Laurent Lafrance 10 October 2017 An important aim of the new national defence policy Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government announced last June is to integrate the country\u2019s universities more fully into the ruling class\u2019 aggressive and increasingly militarist foreign policy. The 113-page defence policy document outlines [&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-329930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}