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Month: August 2024

Canada’s Defense Spending: Why Tony Abbott is Only Half Right

I read with interest the former Australian Prime Minister’s National Post article on Canada’s defence spending. My initial reaction was satisfaction that such a prominent politician from a Five-Eyes country was giving it to the Canadian government. However, my opinion changed as I considered the viewpoints of a number of pundits and their take on Abbott’s categorization of Canada as a nation of “early quitters.” Abbott’s thesis about Canada and its defence spending and foreign policy is only half right.…

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