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  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Interesting that the $500M cut matches to the $500M that they're promising to send to Ukraine

  • carpoftruth [any, any]
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    8 months 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