God some of you guys flip instantly once Carney opens his mouth eh?
20+ billion in loans that will -never- he repaid. The whole reason for these loans was what many of you were saying was money was better than lives. Now it’s lives and money? You guys spent years of this was saying money is better than lives, did you not? lol..
What are these troops going to do? Maintain a fucking front line?
Ukraine has lost possibly 10 million people or more since the beginning of the war in refugees, relocations, etc. almost. Quarter of their population. Compile that with losing 400,000+ troops, all young men, you’ve lost an entire generation. If the war ended today, it’s not a matter of status quo, rebuilding back to “normal” there are many articles in skimming through speculating that even by 2040/2050 the population will not be back to pre-war time, which isn’t hard to believe.
Comparing WW2 spending to this is also insane.. yea.. a world war involving every ally you have, VS this? Please.. there is no comparison to be made. A better comparison would be our futile spending in Haiti.
The brand new St.Pauls hospital is going to cost 2.X billion, one of if not the largest construction projects I’ve ever seen in the lower mainland.
Not like we could use a couple more of those of anything *shrug