We have an ongoing crisis in many rural First Nations and Nunavut communities, with substandard, unaffordable and/or overcrowded housing; boil-water advisories; education and transportation issues, and many more conditions that most people in cities would find intolerable. Increasing spending on the military could further jeopardize funding for health care, housing and education for communities in dire need, not to mention the country's population as a whole.
On the whole a government should have a broad vision when applying to be the government/ campaigning . If the turn around contradicts or undermines the mission, it is a betrayal. However citizens also need to support a government / politicians when they are courageous and take a stand against unreasonable power. It feels we have already lost the fight -when we for example shrink from the smallest demand of tax from big corporations , such as the digital service tax. There will be economic hurt immediately ,but drawing the line is important. Think of the hurt of indebtedness, buying arms from your adversaries - environmental damage of war and unleashed exploration of resources..
We have an ongoing crisis in many rural First Nations and Nunavut communities, with substandard, unaffordable and/or overcrowded housing; boil-water advisories; education and transportation issues, and many more conditions that most people in cities would find intolerable. Increasing spending on the military could further jeopardize funding for health care, housing and education for communities in dire need, not to mention the country's population as a whole.
On the whole a government should have a broad vision when applying to be the government/ campaigning . If the turn around contradicts or undermines the mission, it is a betrayal. However citizens also need to support a government / politicians when they are courageous and take a stand against unreasonable power. It feels we have already lost the fight -when we for example shrink from the smallest demand of tax from big corporations , such as the digital service tax. There will be economic hurt immediately ,but drawing the line is important. Think of the hurt of indebtedness, buying arms from your adversaries - environmental damage of war and unleashed exploration of resources..
Government should change course for a real crisis, but not for a trumped-up excuse, and preferably without stoking a further crisis.