Wednesday, December 4, 2019

SCRAMBLING TO SHOW DEFENSE SPENDING

It's the bureaucratic equivalent of searching behind the couch cushions for loose change: the semi-regular exercise of finding federal expenses to include in Canada's annual calculation of defence spending.
And it appears federal officials have gotten quite good at it.
It is a curious, deliberate exercise meant to make Canada's ratio of military spending to gross domestic product look better to our NATO allies — principally the Americans.

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