That's tough talk from a country that can't muster any useful material or manpower:
Russia accused Canada on Thursday of childishly annotating a letter it sent at the United Nations seeking support for its draft resolution on providing aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine, which Ottawa reacted to with pointed comments.
Russia is right to laugh at the Canadian UN mission.
First of all, the missive is more intelligently written than anything produced by a Canadian drummed through the public school system.
Is this missive ridden with lies? So says the sophomoric government that bribed the press to be on its side and congratulated the press for the propaganda it produced about a popular yet politically embarrassing movement, like this little gem right here:
No mysterious foreign millionaires bankrolled the Freedom Convoy, crowdfunding executives yesterday told the Commons finance committee. Evidence disproving cabinet claims of six-figure foreign interference came as one Liberal MP theorized Russia may have secretly funded the protest: “The statistics and numbers we are quoting here are the facts.”
(Sidebar: of course, no Russian money was found but the truth was not the purpose of the baseless accusation.)
Russia is an all-purpose boogey-man. It is good to suggest that Russia is the root of all wrong-doing when the matter is convoys or Donald Trump but not when Obama is running for second term (flexibility, you see), or when Georgia and parts of Ukraine are invaded, or when Canada refuses to aid Ukraine, or when Russia shoots down civilian aircraft, or when the West relies on Russia for oil.
There are conditions, you understand, and some of them are dependent on pandemics that have lost their steam.
But I digress ...
Back to Canada's uselessness:
The Canadian government intends to significantly increase defence spending; however, recent history has shown the feds have struggled to meet capital expenditure targets.
With a renewed focus on defence spending in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Defence Minister Anita Anand, speaking at the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence on March 11, promised a “robust package to modernize NORAD [North American Aerospace Defence Command].”
“Despite the global pandemic, we are still on track to increase our defence spending from $18.9 billion to $32.7 billion dollars in 2026–27,” Anand added.
But Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux told The Epoch Times, “It doesn’t look like it’s going to be an easy task to achieve—that big an increase in procurement for DND [Department of National Defence] expenditures.”
The PBO said, in a March 11 report analyzing capital spending under the 2017 national defence policy Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE), that the DND was regularly underspending compared to projections.
The cumulative shortfall was almost $10 billion, from fiscal 2017–18 to 2020–21, for what DND was supposed to have spent according to SSE.
And now, the new spending profile shows higher capital spending starting in 2025–26 until the end of SSE’s 20-year horizon, in 2036–37—spending from the first four years of SSE has been shifted into the future.
“The substantial acceleration in capital spending from 2023–24 to 2027–28 potentially raises questions regarding the ability of the government to manage increased procurement activity,” said the PBO report, which notes that the planned spending in 2027–28 is at least three times higher than capital spending was in any prior fiscal year over the past 20 years.
But with what money?
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The Department of Defence didn’t specify what kind of grenades they’re sending to Ukraine, but Canadian soldiers typically use the C-13, the Canadian designation of the American M67. Grenade technology hasn’t changed all that much since the First World War, but this grenade is very intentionally shaped like a baseball on the premise that U.S. soldiers would probably have an easier time throwing it.
(Sidebar: because Americans sure do love their baseball!)
Satellite imagery to keep tabs on the Russians
It was while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Europe that he promised to provide Ukraine with real-time imagery from Canada’s Radarsat-2 satellite to track the movements of Russian forces. Left unsaid is that Canada actually gave this capability to Ukraine in 2015, after Russia’s seizure of Crimea, but withdrew it a few months later due to red tape. ...
390,000 Individual Meal Packs
These are combat rations; portable, high-calorie meals designed to be eaten by a soldier who has minimal equipment to cook with. And Canada does combat rations particularly well. The entrees include gourmet options such as “veal cutlet with mustard sauce” and “gemelli pasta and vegetables.” Now tack on bread, a date square, a brand-name chocolate bar, several kinds of beverages, generous condiments and breath mints. It even comes with a compressed napkin stamped with a maple leaf.
So that the Ukrainians know who gave them that disgusting muck.
Ukraine hasn't a chance if it is relying on Canadian "help".
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