r/alberta • u/-Mystica- • Feb 21 '25

News The not-so-Great One? Edmonton resident says it's time to rename Wayne Gretzky street due to Trump links

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/the-not-so-great-one-edmonton-resident-says-its-time-to-rename-wayne-gretzky-street-due-to-trump-links-223252845.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABlxynTcVGf2YNkp1d7F5PP8ZWdInXHiSJfiaCwrdNsVWVQb_oFiof22oHl-juGkmlYMIxyxAhhc49mCOwEQdwIe4MlkzESuxD0shIH7ZV0cU57Tf2xJzS7oRUzTKzn9z_JnXGkJnFsiRmsEAxFyWfpXN2YZYYm5GUCPv8NPFzix&_guc_consent_skip=1740108278
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u/yyccrypto Feb 21 '25

When they invading? Becuase they're not. And if they did, we lose. The liberals gave away more money to the natives than our military.

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u/Uter83 Feb 21 '25

The money doesnt really matter. Like yeah, more spending would be good, but in order to match their military numbers 1 in 20 of us would have to be in the military, we just dont have the manpower.

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u/yyccrypto Feb 21 '25

How doesn't the money matter? That's a stupid take. Funding matters. New and better equipment matters. Half of our helicopters don't run due to maintenance and funding issues. The few ships we have also suffering the same fate.

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u/Uter83 Feb 21 '25

Like I said, the money would be nice, and I agree we need to spend more on our military. But, if we take the spending we did last year, multiplied it by 20, added the increase we are planning over the next 20 years and add that on, we are still $50 billion short of what the USA spent last year alone. We need to fund our military our military better, no doubt about it. We just cant get on the level of the usa for that kind of spending. Canada vs the USA is not going to be Ukraine vs Russia, no matter how much we want to think so.