we do not need submarines. we do not need fighter jets. we need healthcare, we need education and we need freedom of speech.
if we must have subs, despite not needing them, we should build them ourselves, at whatever time and cost is necessary. those funds could be used in our economy to create jobs here, rather than exported from it to create jobs elsewhere. if it will take a while, that's fine. it is always better to do things yourself than pay others to do them for you.
in the second world war, which, unlike this war, was a war with no exit strategy, that we had to fight, the british leveraged canada as a builder. in fact, britain has often leveraged canada as a builder, going as far back as the napoleonic wars. canada's access to raw resources and relative isolation make it an ideal place to build. it would be a shame if that korean sub was sunk on it's way out of port.
canadians would agree to build before they agreed to be conscripted. i would fight in solidarity with a new conscription crisis, before i saw the value in fighting the most pointless war europe has seen since 1918.
"strong" leadership would be focusing on generating taxes via the multiplier effect and funding local industries with government subsidies in order to do it, not on pushing down austerity to buy expensive offensive weaponry we don't need to fulfill the demands of foreign dictators, and then telling us that we have make sacrifices to do it. nothing could be weaker than that.
