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re: Defense budgets

An unfortunate reality, but one that is likely changing slowly as some threats hit closer to home in the current political environment. I am not proud of Canada's historical (last 20+ yrs)defense spending and treatment of its military, but I think that has improved to some extent with our current conservative government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm

A list of countries defense spending as a % of GDP. It seems Canada has increased its miliary spending as a % of GDP over the past 4 yrs, albeit still trails the US by a significant margin.