This presentation discusses military spending in Canada. The presentation will look at comments made by Donald Trump that all NATO countries need to spend 2% of their GDP on their various military departments. If Canada where to spend up to 2% then that would mean $14B+ more in spending directed at the Canadian Forces.

1. Military Spending for Canada
By: Paul Young, CPA, CGA
Date: November 19,2016

2.  Military spending in Canada is about 18.5B per year or about 1.1%
of GDP
 Trump is pushing that all NATO countries commit to 2% of GDP to
military spending. Canada would need to bump up their military
spending by about $15B. New spending would need new revenue
sources and/or budget cuts elsewhere to meet the commitment to
NATO
 Modern warfare has come into play through use of drones, rail
guns, laser, etc.
 Canadian military is also used to support actions by fisheries
and/or search and rescue.
Summary

3. Canada Military Role

4. Military Action/Canada
 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nato-vows-solidarity-with-turkey-
over-isis-threat-but-urges-peace-with-kurds-1.3170458

5. Peace Keeping

6. World Spending on Military
Trump’s main message was on defence spending, burden sharing,
between Europe and the United States. And there I absolutely agree with
him. We need a more balanced burden sharing between the United States
and Europe. It’s not viable in the long run that the United States pays 70
percent of the total defence spending of NATO,” the former Norwegian
prime minister said. Source -
http://www.euronews.com/2016/11/18/donald-trump-right-on-european-
defence-spending-says-nato-chief

7. NATO
Source - http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-countries/ or
http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2016_03/20160316_2016-mbc-
recommendations-exec-summ.PDF
All NATO countries, including Canada, agreed in 2014 to stop cutting
military budgets and work towards spending two per cent of GDP on
defence. The goal was intended to ensure all alliance members were doing
their fair share, which includes investing enough to field a modern military.
Source - https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/07/05/trudeau-defends-
canadas-military-spending-record-points-to-nato-contribution.html

8. Canada Forces spending

9. Military Spending by Canada

10. Post 9-11 2001 Military spending as % of GDP

11. Canada military spending

12. 2014-2015 - Spending Canada Military

13. Canadian Military Compensation

14. Canadian Frigate Fleet Replacement

15. Nova Scotia

16. RPP – Canada Defense – 2015-2016

17. Canada Defense Issues

18. NDP Comments
 On the question of how they would handle the
country's approximately $20 billion defence budget, which
the parliamentary budget office says needs to be increased to
maintain existing troop and equipment levels, the NDP say they
would "maintain budgetary expenditures on defence to meet our
commitments.“ That is far from a guarantee and officials say much
would depend on the defence review, which could "very well come
back and say there needs to be an increase.“ Source -
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-ndp-
military-peacekeeping-1.3260525
 at the 1:20 minute the NDP comments on the Military OAS -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32bySE5UMw4