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Make no mistake #Canada's #Budget2023 is a war budget. No other federal program received more 💰 than @NationalDefence. $55 billion for @NATO & @NORADCommand programs & more weapons ⬇️ China, Russia & Iran called threats. 1/3 🧵
@cafreeland @FinanceCanada @VOWPeace @WBWCanada Image
Canada's budget also has special feature on new fighter jets ⬇️ $19 billion for #F35s + $7B for new runways. @JustinTrudeau invests more in militarizing the Arctic than protecting it. #GroundTheF35
#Budget2023 Is Not #YourBudget.
Read: bit.ly/3zfklbz @nofighterjets 2/3 Image
Govt prioritizes Ukraine over climate. #Budget2023 has 65 references to #Ukraine, only 49 mentions of #climate though we're in a #ClimateEmergency. Lots of $ for military too little for climate. Read: bit.ly/3zfklbz #Demilitarize
#IPCCReport #StopTheWar #ActOnClimate 3/3 Image

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Aug 27, 2022
1/10 PM @JustinTrudeau & #NATO @jensstoltenberg just visited #Canada’s biggest fighter jet base, CFB Cold Lake, in #Alberta. Canadians should know that the land for this @RCAF_ARC base & air weapons range was stolen from First Nations 70 years ago. bit.ly/3CxYLCb 🧵⬇️
2/From 1952-1960 Liberal govt gave minimal compensation to Dene & Cree peoples for taking land then stopped all payments. Loss of land had devastating consequences: poverty, despair & trauma. They lost traditional hunting grounds & sacred sites that were under Treaties 6, 8 & 10.
3/For 7 decades, all year long, Canada’s #fighterjets conduct loud, low-level flights over reserves & they bomb, strafe and torpedo #ColdLake Air Weapons Range, it's boreal #forest habitat for endangered #caribou. Land contaminated w/ munitions & toxins from military. @IENearth
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Aug 10, 2022
1/5 On #NationalPeacekeepersDay, it's important to confront the myth that #Canada is a #peacekeeping country - it's not. Canada is ranked #71 in world w only 54 soldiers wearing @UN blue helmets, according to @UNPeacekeeping statistics: bit.ly/3zJDWR1 ⬇️ 🧵 Image
2/ In 2015 @JustinTrudeau govt came to power promising more peacekeeping, but didn't. In 2017 govt also launched #ElsieInitiative to increase women in @UN #peaceoperations, but only 18 Canadian ♀️ are on #peacekeeping. #Canada doesn't do peacekeeping because it doesn't want to. Image
3/ So what countries are doing #peacekeeping & helping the @UN? Global south countries: #Bangladesh ranked #1 w over 6K peacekeepers, #Nepal, #India, #Ghana, #Senegal & #China is ranked #10.
How about the #US, the world's biggest, most well-funded military? What's its ranking❓🤔 Image
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Jul 11, 2022
1/5 Latest by Chris Hedges: "@NATO and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive & dangerous military alliance on the planet." He's right, but what does #Canada 🇨🇦 think of #NATO & arms dealers? 🧵
bit.ly/3OWwXe8
2/5 For #Canada, "@NATO is the cornerstone of Canadian security and defence policy." It's the basis of not only Canadian defence policy but also our foreign policy: bit.ly/2KMm1CX ⬇️ Yet as Hedges writes, #NATO is a "global war machine". 🇨🇦 is part of this war machine.
3/5 Hedges notes, "Billions of dollars in weapons are pouring into the region." Yes they are... from 🇨🇦. Last Friday, #Canada's Defence Minister was at the @GeneralDynamics plant in #London #Ontario announcing more tanks & military 'aid' for #Ukraine, #NATO's proxy war.⬇️
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Jul 6, 2022
1/Hey @Justin_Ling, regarding your hit job on @EvaKBartlett on @CBC, you failed to mention that your special guest @timsquirrell works for @ISDglobal, which is funded by #US govt, Republican & CIA-affiliated donors & is partnered w pro-@NATO think tanks.🧵
2/Despite its claims, @ISDglobal is not independent but closely aligned with funders and partners linked to the US @StateDept, @NATO countries and pro-#Ukraine & anti-#Russia organizations like the @OpenSociety. It gets worse. bit.ly/3usGvFe
3/It also gets lots of $ from the International Republican Institute (IRI) that established & continues to fund the CIA-affiliated @NEDemocracy. On the board of the @IRIglobal is Sen. Lindsey Graham that champion for “democracy” in #Ukraine. iri.org/who-we-are/
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