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Question 5: Security

How does the military best serve Canada’s foreign policy objectives: though national and continental defence; combat missions in support of international coalitions; peacekeeping; all of the above?

 

 

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Contributor:efuchs
Date: 2003-05-01 13:15:11
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If the military were actually to keep peace, I would say peacekeeping. As for the rest, I do not want to see Canada continue to follow the US' lead. I am still very upset and will not forget that ultimately Canada was involved in the war by allowing officers on exchange to remain in Iraq, and by allowing Operation Apollo to remain in the Gulf, as well as selling a range of military equipment to the US military.

It would be best to reduce the military's expenditures and give more to education and health.
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