The only threat to Canada is from its Southern border and given that it goes from sea to sea and is shared with the most militarized country on the planet it is obvious we cannot defend ourselves no matter how much of our GNP we spend on weapons.
WWWTT you need to read about the War of 181 and the Fraser Canyon in the 1850's. Canada is now a vassal state of the US and is being asked to up the ante in its support of the global empire. The question is how much are we willing to pay as Canadians, for our share of the planetary plunder?
I think I get the jist of it kropotkin thanks.
This is a very difficult subject! The English French Americans and Portuguese Spanish and Dutch are the real invaders bringing war and death to the Americas! Perhaps it's better to refer to white Canada and US as the imperialist to seperate us from the Indiginous peoples.
Imperialist Canada and imperialist US have never been invaded raped murdered slaughtered humiliated dehumanized etc etc like India Nigeria South Africa Indonesia Syria Irag Afghanistan etc etc etc etc! I strongly believe that a countries peoples that has survived such horrific impacts may very well never want to inflict the same nightmares on other nations peoples.
Anyways, the focus for the imperialist Canadian military needs to shift from offensive NATO to defensive, more search and rescue orientated. A complete redifinition and approach is completely warranted!
Perhaps fellow babblers can expand on this?