Canada’s defense budget is currently $20 billion a year which is less than 1% of its GDP. This is much less than the $600 billion a year the U.S. spends and the $6.5 billion a year the UK spends. Only 5 other countries of the 28 in NATO spend less. To join NATO each member country pledged to spend at least 2% of their GDP on military spending and defense and defend each other against threats from any non-member country. In a July 2016 U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested that the United States would not defend NATO member countries who had failed to increase their military budgets to above 2% of Gross Domestic Product. France, Turkey, Germany, Canada, and Italy are countries that are currently spending less than 2% of their GDP on military defense.
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@8SV4XVH4yrs4Y
Decrease very little to endure right of humans
@8QLPMBH4yrs4Y
Increase if really necessary if not then no
@75KRFBJ5yrs5Y
Eliminate wasteful spending first, then depends.
@82K4BM44yrs4Y
Rebalance the budget, too much money is currently being wasted
@8HQTH285yrs5Y
Decrease, they should put more money into issues at home in the U.S.
@8JN2WYN5yrs5Y
Keep the amount of spending but try to return troops back to America because we are ravaging the middle East.
@8L6SCMV5yrs5Y
The government's annual spending on the military is over $1,000,000,000,000 per year. Much of this money should go to schools and healthcare.
@8LJD4FT5yrs5Y
Decrease, and replicate those funds to more important issues like homelessness
@8P8TVTS4yrs4Y
Decrease, deny aid to countries that promote terrorism.
@8Q6744C4yrs4Y
Increase, and use the money to invest in emerging technologies such as cybersecurity to combat Chinese and Russian aggression in these sectors.
@8S4VH5F4yrs4Y
Decrease, but to the point that we can still protect ourselves and win wars.
@8WJ6X7M4yrs4Y
They should decrease military funding and greatly increase nasa funding for the upcoming Artemis motions mars missions, and beyond.
@8XTW3QC3yrs3Y
Neither, but the military should be more focused on cyber security and cyber warfare
@mblroy993yrs3Y
Yes, but only if other areas are adequately funded
@92P9ZPN3yrs3Y
decrease, we spend way too much money on the military
@8QDSNZY4yrs4Y
Decrease now as we are not in war
@938PWY63yrs3Y
Military spending increase or decrease is irrelevant. Spending needs to be more accountably efficient, subject to more IG staff for different aspects of the military, but the VA in particular.
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