Poilievre made the remarks in Montréal after being asked why he hasn’t yet committed to the NATO benchmark of spending two per cent of annual GDP on the military.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to reach the target by 2032 at the NATO summit in Washington D.C. on Thursday after facing criticism for lagging behind alliance partners.
After the meeting, McConnell published a post on X: “It’s time for our northern ally to invest seriously in the hard power required to help preserve prosperity and security across NATO.”
In May, a group of U.S. senators from both major parties sent a letter to Trudeau urging the Liberal government to boost defence spending to the NATO target.
“It’s clear now Justin Trudeau is seen as an absolute joke on the world stage,” Poilievre said in reaction to allies’ criticism of Canada’s defence spending.
Since coming to power in 2015, the Trudeau government’s military spending as a percentage of GDP has ranged from a low of 1.16 per cent in 2016 to a high of 1.44 in 2017, according to NATO figures.
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replace the military from a woke culture to a warrior culture. the fuck does that even mean? wasn’t aware our military was “woke”. Christ on a cracker we’re collectively fucked. just start a civil war down south or something already so we can all start surviving in a post apocalyptic world and everyone can get off the internet.
He’s referring to the appointment of a woman to lead the army. It’s too “woke”. The complaints by women soldiers and officers against sexual harassment is too “woke”.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was maybe a good thing. Hurray for less military spending! I guess there’s maybe one policy I might agree with.
Then I read the article and found the little “woke” nugget you mentioned. Seriously, conservatives are just completely fucked… I know people in the military and it’s anything but woke! I’d like to see ANY of these fucking woke-saying assholes do a single day of basic training or handle even a few hours on an exercise!
Of course we all know that “warrior culture” in this context means kicking out anyone who’s not a “straight” white male. Because nothing says warrior like being toxicly insecure about ones sexuality.
I just wish it meant bringing in Klingon codes of honour.
Of course we all know that “warrior culture” in this context means kicking out anyone who’s not a “straight” white male. Because nothing says warrior like being toxicly insecure about ones sexuality.
“Warrior culture” means willing to commit war crimes at the direction of the government, without thought, hesitation or remorse.
We’ve seen “warrior culture” in action. It’s why we have professional standing armies that are (supposed to be) well paid, well equipped and supported. Because the alternative–underpaid mercenaries with scorching cases of PTSD–never ever ends well.
That’s the cool thing about complaining about “the woke”, the people who use that word as an insult are never able to define what the word actually means.
Uh huh, sure. Party of the military, except when it comes to paying for stuff. Maybe if we conscripted rich people then conservatives would be more amendable to giving them handouts?
I’m sure that being the party of choice in Canada for Putin supporters has nothing to do with it, either.
Uh, who says he’s going to inherit anything? Election hasn’t happened yet, and there’s still lots of opportunities for him to expose himself as a fascist.
The one thing I was hoping from a Poilievre PM is that I assumed he would at the very least match the 2% NATO requirement, that was the only thing going for him
A lot of conservative supporters–especially the hard-core ones–have been influenced by Russian social media operations in the wake of Ukraine. The result is that internal party polling looks poor on things like “support for NATO”.
The conservatives today aren’t the conservatives of the 1950s and 60s. They’re more like those of the 1920s and 30s: useful idiots at best, complicit at worst.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Poilievre made the remarks in Montréal after being asked why he hasn’t yet committed to the NATO benchmark of spending two per cent of annual GDP on the military.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to reach the target by 2032 at the NATO summit in Washington D.C. on Thursday after facing criticism for lagging behind alliance partners.
After the meeting, McConnell published a post on X: “It’s time for our northern ally to invest seriously in the hard power required to help preserve prosperity and security across NATO.”
In May, a group of U.S. senators from both major parties sent a letter to Trudeau urging the Liberal government to boost defence spending to the NATO target.
“It’s clear now Justin Trudeau is seen as an absolute joke on the world stage,” Poilievre said in reaction to allies’ criticism of Canada’s defence spending.
Since coming to power in 2015, the Trudeau government’s military spending as a percentage of GDP has ranged from a low of 1.16 per cent in 2016 to a high of 1.44 in 2017, according to NATO figures.
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replace the military from a woke culture to a warrior culture. the fuck does that even mean? wasn’t aware our military was “woke”. Christ on a cracker we’re collectively fucked. just start a civil war down south or something already so we can all start surviving in a post apocalyptic world and everyone can get off the internet.
He’s referring to the appointment of a woman to lead the army. It’s too “woke”. The complaints by women soldiers and officers against sexual harassment is too “woke”.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was maybe a good thing. Hurray for less military spending! I guess there’s maybe one policy I might agree with.
Then I read the article and found the little “woke” nugget you mentioned. Seriously, conservatives are just completely fucked… I know people in the military and it’s anything but woke! I’d like to see ANY of these fucking woke-saying assholes do a single day of basic training or handle even a few hours on an exercise!
Of course we all know that “warrior culture” in this context means kicking out anyone who’s not a “straight” white male. Because nothing says warrior like being toxicly insecure about ones sexuality.
I just wish it meant bringing in Klingon codes of honour.
“Warrior culture” means willing to commit war crimes at the direction of the government, without thought, hesitation or remorse.
We’ve seen “warrior culture” in action. It’s why we have professional standing armies that are (supposed to be) well paid, well equipped and supported. Because the alternative–underpaid mercenaries with scorching cases of PTSD–never ever ends well.
That wouldn’t stop the influencers.
guuuuise, omg a Bradley just rolled past my house and is liquidating the family down the street shaky video of horrors incomprehensible
That’s the cool thing about complaining about “the woke”, the people who use that word as an insult are never able to define what the word actually means.
While at the same time complaining that Trudeau won’t achieve that same target.
Just standard operating procedure for conservatives then.
Uh huh, sure. Party of the military, except when it comes to paying for stuff. Maybe if we conscripted rich people then conservatives would be more amendable to giving them handouts?
I’m sure that being the party of choice in Canada for Putin supporters has nothing to do with it, either.
PP doesn’t like the military at all, except when talking about it looks good for him. He literally wants to cut funding to it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-armed-forces-military-nato-1.7258338
He thinks the military is “woke” presumably because we allow women and trans people to serve.
Uh, who says he’s going to inherit anything? Election hasn’t happened yet, and there’s still lots of opportunities for him to expose himself as a fascist.
The one thing I was hoping from a Poilievre PM is that I assumed he would at the very least match the 2% NATO requirement, that was the only thing going for him
A lot of conservative supporters–especially the hard-core ones–have been influenced by Russian social media operations in the wake of Ukraine. The result is that internal party polling looks poor on things like “support for NATO”.
The conservatives today aren’t the conservatives of the 1950s and 60s. They’re more like those of the 1920s and 30s: useful idiots at best, complicit at worst.