MacKay reveals details of military modernization

HALIFAX — Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he was merely providing more details on the government's defence strategy when his department quietly posted the price tag on its website late Thursday night.

Mr. MacKay, who was at an international conference in Halifax Friday, said the plan amounts to $490-billion in spending over 20 years.

The funding includes $20-billion for new aircraft, tanks and ships, in addition to $15-billion in transport planes, trucks and helicopters that had been purchased earlier.

The Canada First Defence Strategy was first introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Halifax last month amid complaints that the funding was unclear and incorrect.
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Not $10 billion a year, not $15 billion a year but $24.5 billion a year. That is $750 a year for each and every man, woman and child.

That is what I call screwing everybody.

it's going to take to run their spanking new war machinery with oil at $150+ a barrel.

It would just empty the bathtub that much faster.

That Canada become a military superpower!....:sarcasm:
I can't believe that Canadians are willing to waste all this money that could instead be spent on health care and other important domestic persuits!