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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • While Canada and the US occupy roughly the same amount of territory, the American military is roughly six times the size (at 450,000 troops to 63,000) and its budget 30 times larger ($842 billion to $28 billion). As a percentage of GDP, Canada’s military spending has languished around 1.3 per cent, near the bottom of the Nato table and below the expected minimum of 2 per cent.

    That actually doesn’t look all that bad to me; it appears that for the most part, Canada has tried to work smarter. Considering the population disparities between the US and Canada, the military spending has been invested in non-personnel assets, resulting in significantly less waste.

    That said, there are definitely places implementation can still be improved.