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Should Canada Join AUKUS?

Published by Ryan Flannagan on September 12, 2023

The Quick Answer is No. Let’s start off by answering the question of what is AUKUS? First, AUKUS stands for Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As best I can understand, AUKUS is a three-country defence pact that proposes the involved countries work together closely on several defence-related issues in the Pacific region, including the transfer of technology that would allow Australia to acquire nuclear submarines (henceforth to called SSN = Submersible Ship Nuclear). It’s this last point…

The Argument for Canada Investing 2% GDP into Defence

Published by Ryan Flannagan on July 30, 2023

I regularly listen to the Defence Deconstructed podcast, which regularly delves into a range of topics concerning the Canadian Armed Forces (the CAF). Recently, I listened to a conversation that discussed the brutal Wall Street Journal opinion piece that took Canada to task for its anemic defence spending, which is approximately 1.3% of GDP. Inarguably, it was the single most damning piece of opinion regarding the sorry state of Canada’s defence capabilities in recent memory. In listening to the conversation…

Conservative Middle-Class Men and Trans Rights – The Views Held

Published by Ryan Flannagan on April 13, 2023

Question: What “rights” aren’t Canadian middle-class men willing to accept when it comes to trans rights? The short answer is almost all. However, there are few areas that conservative middle-class men are not prepared to say yes to. This essay will identify what these issues or rights are and why it is conservative men will make efforts to prevent them from happening. Now, as will be my contention in the series of short essays I will be producing in…

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Should Canada Join AUKUS?

The Argument for Canada Investing 2% GDP into Defence

Conservative Middle-Class Men and Trans Rights – The Views Held