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The Liberal government is looking to cut almost $1 billion from the annual budget of the Department of National Defence — a demand the country’s top military commander says is prompting some “difficult” conversations within the military.

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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Post WW1 we were a global power because we had one of the largest logistics chains of chemical weapons.

Allegedly that played a role in the Nazis not using chemical weapons on troops, because Canada completely outclassed them on that.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Huh, interesting. Did Canada have an oil industry going already somewhere in the 40's? Usually that stuff is made in petrochemical facilities.