http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/ Canadian military spending reports, analysis, and discussion. 28 Jan 2010 11:20 PST 28 Jan 2010 11:20 PST 28 Jan 2010 11:20 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-09_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-09_details.php $205,058,272 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated September 2009. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The war in Afghanistan CANNOT BE WON, according to many security analysts. Canadian local economy is flailing, according to economic experts. The environment is close to a dangerous tipping point, according to overwhelming scientific consensus. So how does Stephen Harper respond? He keeps spending more tax dollars on the military! Brilliant. 28 Jan 2010 10:20 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-08_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-08_details.php $330,647,731 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated August 2009. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! At this rate of war spending, one might get the impression that Canada is enjoying prosperous financial times, but economic experts suggest the contrary. What is Stephen Harper thinking? 28 Jan 2010 09:20 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-07_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-07_details.php $502,829,264 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated July 2009. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The rate of war spending has increased with Stephen Harper's conservatives at the (minority) helm. Many Canadians question the sensibility of spending so much on a flawed security strategy while domestic issues escalate in severity! 28 Jan 2010 08:20 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-06_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-06_details.php $965,585,807 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated June 2009. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It looks like summer is just around the corner again. As in prior years this monthly military spending surge hits a high note! 28 Jan 2010 07:20 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-05_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-05_details.php $362,511,263 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated May 2009. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Stephen Harper did promise to spend more Canadian tax dollars on the military. Desperate unemployed Canadians who feel the pinch of a seriously neglected domestic social infrastructure, acknowledge that this is one of the promises actually kept by the PM - although they wished he hadn't! 28 Jan 2010 06:20 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-04_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-04_details.php $602,156,324 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated April 2009. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! You can tell the conservatives are running the spending show - their taste for war is legendary! 26 Jan 2010 16:23 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-12_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-12_details.php $588,865,591 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated December 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Canada's war chest got a HALF BILLION DOLLAR christmas present this month, and guess who's paying for it! 26 Jan 2010 04:40:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-09_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-09_details.php $186,474,246 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated September 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Have you ever considered the environmental impact of military operations? You should, because YOU'RE paying for it, and the world is watching! 26 Jan 2010 03:40:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-08_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-08_details.php $484,163,454 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated August 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! For all the hundreds of millions already spent by Canadians on our military engagement in Afghanistan, the evidence is mounting to show that things have gotten even worse on many fronts. Can we really afford another HALF BILLION TAX DOLLARS on this kind of a mission? 26 Jan 2010 02:40:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-07_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-07_details.php $209,159,712 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated July 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Until we reframe the discussion about the security and sovereignty of Canada in today's world, be prepared for hundreds of millions being stuffed in the war chest each month! 24 Jan 2010 17:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-06_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-06_details.php $681,885,346 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated June 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Almost SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION TAX DOLLARS withheld from DOMESTIC programs to be flushed down the military whirlpool! Can we really afford this? 24 Jan 2010 16:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-05_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-05_details.php $270,240,778 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated May 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The more we "harmonize" with US security, the harder it will be for the enemies of America to see Canada as a separate sovereign nation! Are YOU ok with that? 24 Jan 2010 15:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-04_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-04_details.php $208,008,422 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated April 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Remember when Canada USED to be a respected peace keeping nation? If you want to see our tax dollars spent on NON-COMBAT ideologies, you must choose the right leadership! 24 Jan 2010 14:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-03_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-03_details.php $311,757,176 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated March 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS for WHAT?? Do our generals have an exit strategy, or is this a sign of the times! 24 Jan 2010 13:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-02_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-02_details.php $233,348,937 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated February 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! As we flip and flop between Conservatives and Liberals, the overall strategy does not seem to change much. It's time for a REAL change in leadership! 24 Jan 2010 12:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-01_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-01_details.php $209,517,853 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated January 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! If you can think of better ways to spend a COUPLE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS in a single month, next election, consider an ALTERNATIVE to the Conservatives AND Liberals who brought us here! 24 Jan 2010 11:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-12_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-12_details.php $1,856,489,100 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated December 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Almost TWO BILLION TAX DOLLARS spent to appease those who still value offensive combat ideologies! 24 Jan 2010 10:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-11_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-11_details.php $167,954,345 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated November 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Conservatives spend billions on war. Liberals spend billions on war. Canadians who aspire to break from this pattern of military-inspired waste know better than to vote for these parties! 24 Jan 2010 09:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-10_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-10_details.php $205,358,164 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated October 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! If you think a COUPLE HUNDRED MILLION BUCKS flushed down per month on outdated warrior mindsets is bad, wait until the Security and Prosperity Partnership (aka SPP, North American Union) kicks in! 24 Jan 2010 08:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-09_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-09_details.php $278,611,316 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated September 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Replacing "Made in Canada" with "Made in China" hurts local Canadian economy and INCREASES INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THREATS! 24 Jan 2010 07:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-08_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-08_details.php $257,439,197 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated August 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Many Canadians are concerned that when you add up a QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS per month for the war chest and continue propping up the government of China, world peace is NOT likely to occur! 24 Jan 2010 06:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-07_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-07_details.php $176,103,771 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated July 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Liberal and Conservative elected officials seem obsessed with global trade - even if it means endless wars and a failing local domestic economy! 22 Jan 2010 12:55:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-06_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-06_details.php $527,646,435 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated June 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! OVER HALF A BILLION DOLLARS is a lot of YOUR tax money - especially if it is spent in ways you totally disagree with! This will not stop until YOU exercise your civic duties! 22 Jan 2010 11:55:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-05_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-05_details.php $212,154,425 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated May 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! If you don't like HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of YOUR tax dollars being diverted from Canadian domestic programs into US corporate military interests, support Canadian independent businesses which share and demonstrate YOUR values! 22 Jan 2010 10:55:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-04_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-04_details.php $211,653,542 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated April 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Do you feel helpless watching HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of YOUR tax dollars being spent on offensive "defence policies"? Until YOU choose to make your opinions known and join the many Canadians who believe in NON-MILITARY peace for all the peoples of the world, be prepared to see more of your earnings disappear this way! 22 Jan 2010 09:55:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-03_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-03_details.php $98,814,298 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated March 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! From a practical standpoint, the Canadian tax system (aka Revenue Canada, CRS, CRCA) does not permit Canadians to directly opt out of funding military operations, but there are other ways to make your intentions known - consider the recipents of these "defence dollars" and choose whether or not to support these "military vendors" with your consumer patronage! 22 Jan 2010 08:55:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-02_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-02_details.php $30,668,799 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated February 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Examine these contracts carefully, and keep in mind that this represents only a portion of what Canadian tax payers spent on the defence policies this month alone! 22 Jan 2010 07:55:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-01_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2007-01_details.php $51,063,481 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated January 2007. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Are you still confused about what Canada's involvement in Afghanistan is actually about? You are NOT alone! 21 Jan 2010 09:05:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-12_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-12_details.php $269,554,184 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated December 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It's regrettable that it always takes so long and costs so much in public funds and human lives before we realize that we were engaged in a flawed strategy! 21 Jan 2010 08:05:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-11_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-11_details.php $122,185,048 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated November 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It does not seem to matter whether the Liberals or Conservatives are signing away Canadian tax dollars to global trade related military combat. Maybe Liberals AND Conservatives are THE problem! 21 Jan 2010 07:05:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-10_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-10_details.php $204,696,410 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated October 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It does not take long to lose a billion tax dollars at this rate. It's clear to many Canadians that the end of the Cold War served as little protection to taxpayers with peaceful aspirations! 21 Jan 2010 06:05:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-09_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-09_details.php $44,744,188 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated September 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Many Canadians consider profit from military combat to be a perverse application of public funds, yet the Canada Tax Act has enough embedded vagueness to enable strict enforcement against any Canadians who choose to not participate in war funding. 21 Jan 2010 05:05:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-08_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-08_details.php $57,188,960 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated August 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Numbers on a page don't do justice in reflecting the magnitude of potential horric consequences of such expenditures from a human cost! 21 Jan 2010 04:05:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-07_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-07_details.php $69,287,954 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated July 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! With the increase of global-trade driven conflicts around the globe, perhaps spending even more money on adding to the conflict might be an outdated ideology. 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-06_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-06_details.php $68,856,885 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated June 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! What is it with these pre-summer break spending sprees? 68 MILLION DOLLARS thrown at the military is about double last month's indulgences by the militarily inclined. 20 Jan 2010 11:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-05_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-05_details.php $34,533,200 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated May 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! 34 milion here, 34 million there - are we even keeping track of our progress? The world says we're not doing so well, and many Canadians agree! 20 Jan 2010 10:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-04_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-04_details.php $38,533,090 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated April 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The Canadian war chest has been getting injections from taxpayers each and every month, regardless of how well or how poorly Canadians were doing domestically. It's time to establish SENSIBLE priorities for our expenditures! 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-03_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-03_details.php $56,890,767 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated March 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The military combat operations in Afghanistan have been supported by Liberals AND Conservatives. Flip flopping between the two parties is not likely to stop the flow of blood funded by Canadian tax dollars. It's time to break the Canadian duopoloy! 20 Jan 2010 08:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-02_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-02_details.php $34,560,920 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated February 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The war in Afghanistan is about OIL. Considering that Canada is the largest single source provider of oil to the US, why on earth are WE contributing to this conflict? Why are we giving OUR money to Uncle Sam? Who do our elected officials REALLY work for? 20 Jan 2010 07:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-01_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2006-01_details.php $38,576,401 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated January 2006. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Billions of dollars have been, and will continue to be spent on military operations which, as history shows, seem to only aggrevate and increase the problems they are supposed to fix. Enough is enough already - time for a better plan! 20 Jan 2010 06:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-12_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-12_details.php $271,981,633 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated December 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! 2005 was a year tainted with military civil rights and human rights abuses. Domestic economic health has been threatened by the excessive diversion of tax dollars to fight wars driven by big corporate interests. So, what's another QUARTER OF A BILLION down that hole? 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-11_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-11_details.php $154,557,486 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated November 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It is an internationally recognized fact that since Canada and the US set up "democracy" shop in Afghanistan, drug trafficking in the region dramatically increased, civillian deaths increased, as did the number of fresh recruits of "enemies". Will more money really fix a bad strategy? 20 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-10_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-10_details.php $2,451,827,939 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated October 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It's hard to believe that with this level of discretionary expenditure of Canadian taxes, we won't be working from an endless deficit! 18 Jan 2010 22:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-09_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-09_details.php $212,816,924 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated September 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Did you know that a HUGE portion of Canadian tax money GOES DIRECTLY to the US Military Industrial Complex? Has anyone checked the US record on human rights lately? 18 Jan 2010 21:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-08_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-08_details.php $147,616,388 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated August 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! How long does the Canadian LOCAL economy have to be under attack to divert our military spending from large corporate driven interests to those of hard working tax paying Canadians? 18 Jan 2010 20:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-07_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-07_details.php $152,666,279 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated July 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! 150 MILLION BUCKS could go a long way in the peace business. Rather than buying bullets and bombs, why not use OUR taxes to fortify our local economy and use TRADE as a tool for negotiation with other nations! 18 Jan 2010 13:10:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-06_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-06_details.php $1,111,762,226 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated June 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Is it Christmas before summer break for the Canadian war chest? OVER ONE BILLION TAX DOLLARS signed away in a single month. Don't the "bad guys" get summers off? Maybe that's why the "enemy" is so mad at us - or NOT! 18 Jan 2010 12:10:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-05_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-05_details.php $117,613,301 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated May 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Imagine if Canadian DOMESTIC programs received over a HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS each month. Is this money really better spent on the military? 18 Jan 2010 11:10:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-04_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-04_details.php $80,733,166 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated April 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! For those of us who had hoped the dismantling of the iron curtain would afford more tax dollars to DOMESTIC programs, watching another 80 MILLION DOLLARS invested in the war machine is disappointing, and unacceptable! 17 Jan 2010 18:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-03_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-03_details.php $293,071,489 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated March 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! With almost another THIRD OF A BILLION TAX DOLLARS, and fueled by their obsession with NAFTA and SPP, Canadian elected officials choose the path of globalism over shoring up and fortifying local independent Canadian businesses. It only gets worse from here. 17 Jan 2010 17:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-02_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-02_details.php $387,199,653 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated February 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Say goodbye to over a THIRD OF A BILLION DOLLARS and hello to an escalating waste of Canadian tax dollars! 17 Jan 2010 16:00:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-01_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2005-01_details.php $109,176,644 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated January 2005. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Over 100 MILLION DOLLARS may suggest that some global crisis is under way, but with mainstream media speaking to their corporate owners' interests, taxpayers have to work harder to find out what is really going on! 17 Jan 2010 11:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-12_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-12_details.php $531,735,480 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in December, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-12-01 to 2004-12-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! This HALF A BILLION DOLLAR military spending spree is not the only way to secure Canada. When Canadian tax dollars are spent to shore up American wars while starving local independent Canadian businesses, we're going the wrong way! 17 Jan 2010 10:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-11_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-11_details.php $5,222,641,065 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in November, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-11-01 to 2004-11-30. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Imagine if these 5.2 BILLION DOLLARS were applied to a "Canadian Department of PEACE" instead of an outdated war machine which relies on bullies with bullets! 17 Jan 2010 09:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-10_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-10_details.php $87,310,454 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in October, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-10-01 to 2004-10-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! You'd think that given how much of a US tax dollar goes to the American war and terror machine, we would not have to give our own Canadian tax money to the US Military Industrial Complex, but we do! 17 Jan 2010 08:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-09_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-09_details.php $179,085,431 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in September, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-09-01 to 2004-09-30. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! America is not the only country which has made extreme cuts to civil rights and liberties in the name of national security. Here is an example of 179 MILLION DOLLARS being directed to an operation which many Canadians consider a bad path for any civilized nation! 17 Jan 2010 07:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-08_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-08_details.php $193,768,106 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in August, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-08-01 to 2004-08-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Most of the informed world agrees that the US Military and its mercenaries HAVE engaged directly and indirectly in terrorism and torture. So by giving the US Military Industrial Complex Canadian tax dollars, aren't we providing material support to terrorists? 17 Jan 2010 06:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-07_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-07_details.php $363,528,674 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in July, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-07-01 to 2004-07-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! If you are wondering about how much of this THIRD OF A BILLION BUCKS has been applied to supporting local independent Canadian companies, you may want to sit down before you hear the answer! 17 Jan 2010 05:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-06_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-06_details.php $192,288,266 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in June, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-06-01 to 2004-06-30. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! If you would rather see 192 MILLION tax dollars applied to NON-military contracts, now is the time to speak up. It seems that the Government of Canada does not value peace as much as it trusts in the ways of war! 17 Jan 2010 04:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-05_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-05_details.php $117,255,368 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in May, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-05-01 to 2004-05-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! 117 MILLION DOLLARS may not seem a lot of money to those who spend it with impunity, but for the rest of us Canadian taxpayers, that's too much money being invested in only manufacturing more enemies of the state! 17 Jan 2010 03:30:00 PST Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-04_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2004-04_details.php $125,177,023 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in April, 2004 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2004-04-01 to 2004-04-30. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! It did not take long for the Canadian defence strategy to shift from beloved peacekeeper to just another minion of the US Military Industrial Complex. Say goodbye to 125 MILLION DOLLARS! 09 Aug 2009 10:00:00 PDT Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-11_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-11_details.php $2,784,453,933 Canadian public tax dollars spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated November 2008. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! Stephen Harper's conservative record of supporting globalism and North American harmonization (vis a vis SPP Security Prosperity Partnership, and NAFTA) at the expense of local independent Canadian economy, environment, and essential domestic needs, is clearly evident through his government's commitment to engage and further wars driven by US government (disinformed) foreign policy, and global corporate interests. Almost 3 billion bucks in one month says a lot about conservative ideological priorities! Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:28:00 PDT Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-10_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2008-10_details.php $438,777,440 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in October, 2008 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2008-10-01 to 2008-10-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The next time your hear conservatives like Stephen Harper talk about the "global recession" as though it were some unavoidable "act of God", keep 439 MILLION DOLLARS in mind and consider how this much public money could have been applied far more wisely! Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:18:00 PDT Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-03_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-03_details.php $706,790,617 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in March, 2009 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2009-03-01 to 2009-03-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The next time your hear conservatives like Stephen Harper talk about the "global recession" as though it were some unavoidable "act of God", keep 700 MILLION DOLLARS in mind and consider how this much public money could have been applied far more wisely! Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-02_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-02_details.php $1,347,535,064 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in February, 2009 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2009-02-01 to 2009-02-28. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The next time your hear conservatives like Stephen Harper talk about the "global recession" as though it were some unavoidable "act of God", keep 1.35 BILLION DOLLARS in mind and consider how this much public money could have been applied far more wisely! Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-01_details.php http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/reports/2009-01_details.php $1,283,135,813 Canadian public tax dollars is just PART of the whopping chunk of money spent on the Canadian Military Industrial Complex in January, 2009 alone. This subtotal represents only SOME of the Department of National Defence (DND) contracts dated 2009-01-01 to 2009-01-31. This does NOT include contracts under $10,000, nor any military grants, nor any military-related travel and hospitality expenses! The next time your hear conservatives like Stephen Harper talk about the "global recession" as though it were some unavoidable "act of God", keep 1.28 BILLION DOLLARS in mind and consider how this much public money could have been applied far more wisely! Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Canadian Taxpayers http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/ http://canadianmilitaryspending.com/ Welcome to CanadianMilitarySpending.com -- a PRIVATE, NON-GOVERNMENT, website featuring government disclosures, independent discoveries, published statistics, exclusive reports, and personal comments from individuals interested in, and concerned about, issues related to the expenditure of public funds as they may apply to the Canadian military, Department of National Defense (DND), Canadian Forces (CF) and other Government of Canada Ministries, departments, and programmes!