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Article: Exploding the myths: Canada and military spending.
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- Ploughshares Monitor
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Canada's cash-starved armed forces have a pitifully small budget. Deep spending cuts have cost us the respect of our allies and endangered our forces' ability to operate in an increasingly dangerous world. The Canadian Forces need more money. Statements like these are repeated so often that they have become the accepted wisdom of pundits and politicians of almost every stripe (with the notable exception of the NDP). Yet, as Bill Robinson reports, there is little or no evidence that these notions are true - and a lot of evidence that they are not.
Myth #1
Further reductions in Canadian military spending will undermine our security in an increasingly ...