Canada

Stop subsidizing oil and gas, in 2024 Canada handed over 29 BILLION to the oil and gas industry. It needs to stop now. After more than a century of industrial scale operation, if oil and gas can not operate without subsidies then maybe they are a failure as a business and they should be allowed to collapse.

30 Billion could provide a lot of healthcare, public transit, and affordable housing.

If the liberal government wants to spend 9B on defense I am all for it provided it comes from Canada's industrial scale parasites.

I think most Canadians would even pitch in for this, if there were a clear plan for how to use the money.

however... just tax the wealthy

So much more spending could be on Canadians. Even job subsidies for Canadian industries.

We need to seriously question NATO membership. NATO is a US force expansion organization under US colonial control. Even if you believe the absurdity of it being a defensive alliance, Canada should understand the obvious that the only military threat to it comes from the US, and the other NATO colonies will not intervene to protect Canada.

Not only with NATO/US always lie to us that Russian interventions are unprovoked aggression, even if Russia were militarist aggressive, our commitment to defend Europe is extremely assymetric (they will never defend us from US. We won't defend Greenland from US either). If the US tells EU to help it destroy/isolate Canada economically, it will. Including buying all of its resources from the US.

At political level, Europe and Canada's values are only to gaslight their people in colonial subservience to CIA/US empire agenda. Canada desperately needs to stop trying to be the best puppy in the pen, hoping that tying a cherry stem with their tongue gets master's approval, and make whatever US/NATO subservient acts dependent on trade deals.

It's blatantly absurd to expect reward for subjugation (stealing social/economic funds) of Canadians, especially when more than 1 penny will be spent on purchases from despotic militarist nation with declared intention to destroy us. Pretending that DNC will say "Look how much Canada still loves us by buying all of our weapons. Let's be nicer to them instead of beating them harder"

Aggressively decouple from US to force US to be nicer to us is ONLY path forward. That does not mean begging EU to choose us over the US, because they won't.

This reminds me of when Paul Martin tried to drop $13B on DND to make a splash ahead of an election. But they have the same problem now as they did then: there aren't enough employees to create the contracts to spend that kind of money in time to have delivery by March 31st. Even if you got a contract or two out, can a manufacturer churn out billions in product that fast without having to first build more infrastructure? Can services be procured without hiring and training enough people first? Didn't fly for Martin either. The investment only paid dividends by the time Harper was in office, so guess who the CAF rank and file was grateful to.

For sure.

Tax the rich.

IMO, another worthy project would be preparing for an insurgency in the event of a US invasion. We could establish caches of weapons, food, etc all over the country for use by rebel forces. Boltholes in caves. Train Army personnel in insurgency tactics. Build up distributed drone manufacturing.

Possible? I'm sure it is—Carney's area of expertise is money, so that isn't the kind of mistake I'd expect him to make.

Is it a good idea? Depends on both where the money is taken from and the details of where it ends up going.

There's a lot of pretty important Canadian military projects that could use the extra infusion of cash. Mostly related to the Navy and Coast Guard. We could re-onshore ship-building in Halifax and Vancouver and expand coastal patrols. We need much better icebreakers.

9 billion could be committed quite fast in a pinch, IMO.

While cutting on every other services

I'd be happy to sell them a rusty pitchfork for $1 billion, if that helps make it possible.