Including inflation. But look around. Does it look like military spending has increased 70% to you? They gave a bigger budjet to Defense. But Defense can't spend it, because federal beurocracy gets in the way. It took 10 years to select a pistol replacement, and now they are back to square 1 because one of the bidders complained and a judge made a decision. It takes some kind of crisis for anything to get done.
Even with inflation it's a big increase in spending. Under Harper military spending dropped to under 1% of our GDP.
And for new equipment, it will take some time. In Halifax 15 new frigates are being build for $70 billion. 3 out of the 8 arctic patrol ships are now completed. Two new supply ships should be completed next year. Now we will get F35 jets. We are currently in the biggest procurement phase of the CAF since the WW2.
Including inflation. But look around. Does it look like military spending has increased 70% to you? They gave a bigger budjet to Defense. But Defense can't spend it, because federal beurocracy gets in the way. It took 10 years to select a pistol replacement, and now they are back to square 1 because one of the bidders complained and a judge made a decision. It takes some kind of crisis for anything to get done.
Even with inflation it's a big increase in spending. Under Harper military spending dropped to under 1% of our GDP.
And for new equipment, it will take some time. In Halifax 15 new frigates are being build for $70 billion. 3 out of the 8 arctic patrol ships are now completed. Two new supply ships should be completed next year. Now we will get F35 jets. We are currently in the biggest procurement phase of the CAF since the WW2.