Not Mentioning the Wars: Canada's Leadership Hopefuls Mum on Arms Trade

Opposition Party Leaders Avoid Canada's Role in Global Arms Trade and Wars

by TRNN

October 11, 2015 

Canada currently spends about $20 billion a year on the military. After almost 10 years of a Harper tenure in the Canadian government and this kind of military spending, voters are asking if this kind of spending makes sense when we are not really at war with anyone, and when we have, according to the Food Bank of Canada, 10 percent of the Canadian population facing food insecurity.

In the leadup to the Canadian elections on October 19, here's what the Liberals and the Conservatives had to say about military spending. 

Richard Sanders and Justin Podur say Canada's leading role in the global arms trade and its participation in war coalitions are in contradiction with the prevailing myth of the nation as a peacemaker.