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Canada’s establishment is beating the drums for more military spending (breachmedia.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure - right-wing politics says more money for defense means less for unimportant social programs like health and education (and environment). Of course they are.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

"Defense" spending is also good news for the fossil fuel industry and the politicians in bed with it. As far as I know, military CO2 emissions aren't even included in most by-country greenhouse gas emission measurements

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, we should encourage our Oligarchy to not want to spend money on the military