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Trudeau gov unveils new austerity measures (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In dollar terms, the Department of National Defence (DND) is losing the most money — $211.1 million of the total $500 million cut. That works out to roughly 0.76 per cent of its $27.5 billion spending estimate.

The government's supplementary estimates, meanwhile, give DND an additional one-time transfer of $1.5 billion — $500 million of it for military aid to Ukraine.

even when the defence budget is cut it is increased