The world must, as Prime Minister Mark Carney recently noted, accept the current climate as it is, rather than looking to the past.
To do so, Canada must develop a defence policy that can meet the country’s needs. The Canadian government’s recent budget envisions a significant increase in defence spending over the next several years.
The problem Canada faces, however, is one that all middle powers face: an inability to compete with great powers in a conventional war.
The Canadian government must therefore pursue non-conventional means to overcome conventional weakness. Simultaneously, the country must be cognizant of the implications of alternative defence policies. The former Yugoslavia provides a harrowing example.
I do think that wide spread rifel training should be inclued in the military budget but privet gun owership, especially hand guns, shouldn’t be apart of a military strategy. Training people to work together on local levels and giveing them skills that are valuable in emergency and war would have benifits in war and if it never comes to that. Also it would help with natinal unitity; a worrie that was brought up in the artical.