defence policy

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Mar 21, 2018

Another take on Jagmeet Singh and political violence

Yves Engler

While the media makes much of the new NDP leader's ties or indifference to Sikh violence, they've ignored Singh's leadership of a party and community that has repeatedly backed Canadian aggression.

Columnists

Jun 13, 2017

Canada's new foreign policy is the same as its old foreign policy

Duncan Cameron

Reading the Trudeau government's new foreign policy announcements, it is difficult to see what the Liberals have to offer the world.

Columnists

Jun 9, 2017

Liberals' massive increase in defence spending is a budgetary coup

Murray Dobbin

With its giant boost to military spending, the Trudeau government is gearing up for more Western adventurism, using NATO to prop up a failing finance capitalism by military threats.

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Jun 8, 2017

The left needs to oppose Trudeau's military spending

Yves Engler

This week Liberal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced a 70 per cent increase in military spending over the next decade. Progressives need to oppose this direction in defence policy.