For decades, Canadian governments, both Liberal and Conservative (under Brian Mulroney), wisely declined to participate in earlier versions of the Golden Dome under former U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Canada’s refusal was largely on the grounds that these so-called “missile defence” systems are not just defensive. In fact, they undermine arms treaties and encourage arms races.
If we’re gonna be paying for a jobs program, it better be our jobs program, and it may or may not even be a military one.
Some more domestic arms production wouldn’t be a bad idea
Agreed. Although I’d really put money into nuclear deterrent and ballistic missiles if I had a say in it. Otherwise we’re very vulnerable to the future whims of the declining power down south. I think their expansionist ideas could grow with the reality of climate change setting in the decades to come.
Drones too, fast drones, cheap effective.
Motor, frame, and prop production can all be spun up overnight. The money part of drones is the flight controller and radio gear, all of that comes from china and would take several years for Canada to start production.
Atm I’m buying Chinese imports but not American, so shrug
It would be nice to stand up a Gripen factory
Are you suggesting spending money on useful things that actually benefit the public? You filthy socialist!
Guilty as charged on both accounts. 😄
it better be military. We need a bigger army
We need healthcare to be treated like the army. It is a service, not a profit generation industry.
The camera or the film? The camera is just an icon I use everywhere, the film is a DIY pallophotophone recording of my voice.
My big issue with healthcare in Canada (Ontario specifically) is that providers who do not cut corners go out of business, because they are a business. A hospital is a private entity that not only has to provide care, it has to make enough of a profit that they can keep the the lights on, pay medical staff, pay non-medical staff, buy 3 to 5 houses per board member. It incentivizes cutting corners because anywhere that there can be profit there has to be maximum profits. If healthcare was run as a service where it is expected to be a total financial loss, all funding ends up going into healthcare or the people who support the health care staff, equipment and facilities.
the icon. cool.
ah i see what you mean. yeah i agree there, but we need also to retain medical staff in canada as well, that’s a glaring issue we seem to have not solved.
That’s largely because provincial governments…mostly conservative ones…are always looking to “cut corners” as the other guy was saying. Canada has a problem with underfunding healthcare in order to try and “save money”, instead of treating it like a necessity and prioritizing as such. If what we are paying doctors or nurses isn’t competetive, then we need to correct that before we start losing good workers. If that requires us to raise revenue in other areas, then that needs to be prioritized over cutting funding to healthcare itself.
Right now, the push seems to be privatization. And that is exactly the wrong direction, if the goal is to improve the quality of services.
If only we didn’t have to subsidize the petro industry $29B, I wonder how many doctors and nurses that could pay for.