2% is quite a lot. 5% is madness. I hope that the costs of it start to become apparent to everyone and they reverse course well before they go that far.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 20 hours ago

Roadways are defence infrastructure.

Water is defence infrastructure.

Power is defence infrastructure.

Resilient rail is definitely defence infrastructure.

It's very easy to get that other 3% -- and actually get sovereign rail from coast to coast to coast at the same time, which we'd never get if it wasn't a defence project.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Do you like speaking russian?

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I suspect speaking American is a more proximate threat...

[–] generallynonsensical@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Have a look at a globe.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 points 5 hours ago

Sure, Canada is adjacent to Russian, French and Danish territory as well as American.

But only one is a realistic threat: 2 are allies, one is stuck in a quagmire war that is obliterating their military capability aaaaand one is regularly threatening to invade or annex via a coup.

When fascists tell you who they are and what they plan to do it is usually a good idea to listen. Mango Mussolini loves to compensate for his tiny penis by killing people.

Oh, and it is VERY patronising to assume someone on THIS sub doesnt know the basic geography of Canada and was too stupid to know where Russia is in relation to it. Seriously ?