{"id":72617,"date":"2017-06-08T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72617"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:01:52","slug":"trump-effect-canada-to-increase-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72617","title":{"rendered":"Trump effect; Canada to increase military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week President Trump castigated NATO allies for their failure to meet their commitment for their own defense. Canada decided that he&#8217;s right according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-40195246\">BBC<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced on Wednesday that the government plans to grow the military budget by 73% over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>The money will go to 88 fighter jets, 5,000 new military personnel and new ships.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes at a time when Nato is pressuring countries to contribute more to global crises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This defence policy is for Canada,&#8221; Mr Sajjan told media when asked if the new spending will appease US President Donald Trump, who has frequently called on Canada to contribute more to Nato.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They get the James Mattis seal of approval according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/06\/07\/canada-to-increase-military-spending-70-percent-in-10-years.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said he was &#8220;heartened&#8221; by Canadian policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States welcomes Canada&#8217;s marked increase in investment in their military and their continued commitment to a strong defense relationship with the United States and NATO,&#8221; Mattis said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision is not without dissension in Canada though. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/letters_to_the_editors\/2017\/06\/08\/boosting-our-military-is-wrong-direction.html\">Montreal Star<\/a>&#8216;s readers letters;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For a start, why not disarm part of the Canadian Forces and equip them to offer aid and support to areas struck by earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods and other natural disasters. That would not make Freeland popular with the military industrial complex, but it could be described as real leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Justin Trudeau Liberals just caved in to U.S. President Donald Trump and gave him exactly what he demanded. Trump asked NATO members to increase their military spending to 2 per cent of their GDP. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week President Trump castigated NATO allies for their failure to meet their commitment for their &hellip; <a title=\"Trump effect; Canada to increase military spending\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72617\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump effect; Canada to increase military spending<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}