“Three decades ago, Canada published a report about its future military plans. ‘The Cold War is over,’ its first chapter began, before outlining the government’s massive budget pressures and proposing cuts to personnel and defense spending,” Bloomberg reports.
“Then came a warning: ‘Canada should never find itself in a position where the defense of its national territory has become the responsibility of others.
'”“Surrounded by three oceans, with an allied superpower on its southern border, Canada took its peace dividend — and let its military atrophy. It has recently been absent from patrols and war games with allies.”
“A hostile President Donald Trump is changing that.”