“CAF – Canadian Armed Forces”

Cory Morgan: Shunning of ‘Warrior Culture’ in Canada’s Military Must End

Pride Parade Rapid Deployment Force

Canada’s reinvestment into its Armed Forces was long overdue, and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announced plan to increase defence spending to 5 percent of the GDP by 2025 was welcome. Canada has long faced criticism from NATO allies for its refusal to meet the defence spending obligation of 2 percent of the GDP.

Canada’s military has been working with antiquated equipment and low budgets for a long time. Canadian troops deployed to Poland in 2023 were forced to seek out their own food sources while on duty. When we can’t even feed our forces when they are on deployment, we have serious issues.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Mark Carney needs to explain to Canadians how we’re going to pay for our national defence

It wasn’t so long ago that Canada perennially cashed in on its so-called “peace dividend.” The logic went like this: while our tanks might rust, the salaries of our Armed Forces members stagnate, and our ammunition stockpiles dwindle, the government could reallocate military spending toward areas of more immediate concern — entitlement programs, infrastructure and other “flavours of the day.”

Point to whichever geopolitical disaster from recent history you like, one thing is painfully clear: the dividend has been spent. But the problem isn’t just that our leaders have been slow to acknowledge this new reality — it’s that they’ve been even slower to act on its implications. Because the inverse logic now applies: in a more volatile world, there is a crisis fee to pay. A big one.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Success of Canada-Europe defence pact uncertain, former government officials warn

A security and defence pact that Prime Minister Mark Carney signed with the European Union last month faces major obstacles that will likely slow or limit progress in delivering benefits to Canada, former government officials warn.

The Security and Defence Partnership, inked by Mr. Carney ahead of a NATO summit in June, was pitched as an effort to reduce Canada’s reliance on U.S military contractors and generate new business for Canada’s defence industry. It ushers the way for Canada to join in a European Union push to re-arm itself in the face of an expansionist Russia under President Vladimir Putin.

So long as Brookfield profits it’s all good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

RCMP charges CAF members with trying to create ‘anti-government militia’ and seize land

Three men face a terrorism charge for allegedly planning to create an anti-government militia and seize land in Quebec, according to the RCMP.

According to a news release Tuesday morning, the Mounties say the group was involved in an alleged ideologically motivated violent extremism plot “intending to forcibly take possession of land in the Québec City area” and included active members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

I bet at least two are RCMP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?

A whole lot of pacifists of a sudden …

Canada should consider hiking GST, other taxes to pay for defence-spending boost: analysts

A steep new military spending commitment for Canada – the biggest increase in more than 70 years – has handed Mark Carney’s government a fresh challenge: how to pay for it.

At the June, 2025, NATO leaders’ summit, the Prime Minister pledged that Canada will spend as much as $150-billion annually on defence within a decade: equivalent to 5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Despite cash influx, military says it won’t be functional until 2032

Over budget, underperforming boards with nails found to lack deterrent effect but also perceived as a symbol of toxic masculinity

With the federal government announcing new plans to triple Canadian defence spending, the military itself is saying the organization is so overwhelmed and dysfunctional that they won’t be able to meet even their current duties for at least another seven years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

To up defence spending, Canada must cut deeper, tax harder and borrow more – all at once

No sooner had Canada committed to immediately meeting NATO’s long-standing target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence – an increase of $9.3-billion annually – than the goalposts shifted. Dramatically.

At last week’s NATO meetings, a new benchmark emerged: 5 per cent of GDP. While 1.5 per cent of that could include spending on cybersecurity, infrastructure and defence-related technology, the overall target is a staggering $50-billion increase.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Army investigating members allegedly involved in ‘abhorrent’ Facebook group, Canada’s top soldier says

The Canadian Army is investigating members who allegedly shared what the country’s top soldier called “abhorrent” content within a private Facebook group.

According to a statement from Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, the “Blue Hackle Mafia” group featured “racist, misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic comments and images.”

In the message to armed forces members shared with CBC News, the army commander wrote that he is “disgusted by the content of some of the posts published on this group.”

They have no idea how many CAF members are involved. It could be two.

How many CAF members are in groups supporting so-called “gender affirming care” AKA child mutilation?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

NATO defence pledge will fuel huge annual deficits averaging $77.7-billion: report

Election promises and massive defence spending increases promised by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a NATO summit last month will fuel huge annual federal budget deficits averaging more than $77-billion a year, a new report predicts.

A fiscal forecast released by the C.D. Howe Institute Thursday said the combined cost of Liberal Party election platform pledges, plus a June 25 commitment by Canada to boost military expenditures by as much as $90-billion each year, will drive Ottawa deeper into the red.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

John Robson: Government Must Make Major Cuts to Fund $150B Defence Plan

So now we have a number. After sliding along for years pretending we meant to hit NATO’s 2 percent of GDP defence target, or quietly admitting we didn’t, we suddenly promised to. Then the target was raised to 5 percent and the prime minister didn’t blink even though it will cost $150 billion a year, a lot of money even in Ottawa. Which mercifully and horribly brings us to the practical question: Where are we going to get it?

Of course, there are people who don’t want us to try. Some socialists would rather spend the money on social programs or not at all, and some libertarians would rather not spend it at all, meaning the latter do need to find it anyway but the former don’t. As for those who think saying we’ll spend it amounts to having spent it, it buys us precious little time today.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Is Canada beating ploughshares into swords with its NATO 5% pledge? Not likely

By anyone’s measure, $150 billion a year is an eye-watering amount of money to spend on anything — let alone defence.

While it pales in comparison to the inflation-adjusted appropriations of the Second World War, it is potentially, for this generation, the very definition of beating ploughshares into swords.

Or is it?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO

It won’t be easy but here is how Mark Carney can pay for his promise to hike defence spending

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney and our North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies agreed to a new defence investment pledge — investing 5 per cent of annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. That figure includes 3.5 per cent on core military capabilities and 1.5 per cent on defence and security-related infrastructure, such as ports and emergency preparedness systems.

This is an historically significant commitment and is rationalized by NATO political leaders in the context of rising global security threats and a need to increase contribution from non-U. S. members.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO

Jesse Kline: Carney can’t fix the military by meeting NATO’s 5% target alone

CAF Transgender Tank

Mere weeks after announcing that Canada would finally meet its decade-old commitment to spend the equivalent of two per cent of GDP on defence, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his NATO colleagues pulled another arbitrary number out of a hat and agreed to increase spending to five per cent by 2035.

Yet lazily focusing on the top-line spending number will only serve to distract us from the real goal: crafting a coherent strategy to ensure we have an Armed Forces capable of defending Canadian soil and assisting our allies abroad.

More transvestites is always the answer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Canada Needs to Buy European Defence Hardware: Not U.S.

On Monday June 9, Prime Minister Mark Carney did the unthinkable. He promised to immediately boost defence spending to meet the NATO spending objective of 2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) within the current 2025 – 2026 fiscal year.

The original defence budget tabled for this same timeframe was $40 billion or roughly 1.3 per cent of Canada’s GDP. With Carney’s new directive, spending on defence and security is to balloon to $62.7 billion prior to April 1 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, Carney says

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and its NATO allies have all agreed to hike their defence-spending target to five per cent of annual GDP by 2035.

Carney says Canada can no longer rely on its geography to protect it as new weapons and threats emerge on the wold stage.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte put forward a plan that says allies will invest 3.5 per cent in core defence needs — such as jets and weapons — and 1.5 per cent in defence-adjacent areas, such as infrastructure and cybersecurity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO