Canada is looking for a bigger security role in Asia and has made forging deeper ties with Japan and South Korea a priority. As its defence commitments expand at home and overseas the country is expanding military spending.

“Next year, my defence budget will rise by 27% over this year, and, frankly, in the next three or four years, our defence spending will triple,” Blair said.

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    2 months ago

    My personal dream is that we’d join the EU since a lot of our agriculture shit would be in high demand and they’re more politically stable than being attached to the US at the hip but, honestly, any additional economic diversity is welcome. America might elect Trump and it that fucker puts up a 20% tariff a large portion of our economy would be fucked overnight.

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    2 months ago

    I totally approve of this. Asia is pretty unstable right now with China always “threatening”. I think defense spending in this area sends the right message.