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Canada is looking for a bigger security role in Asia and has made forging deeper ties with Japan and South Korea a priority. As its defence commitments expand at home and overseas the country is expanding military spending.

"Next year, my defence budget will rise by 27% over this year, and, frankly, in the next three or four years, our defence spending will triple," Blair said.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fine then, we'll start our own EU with beavers and blow!

I can not find a reference now but I thought back in the day (almost a decade ago now) one of the goals of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have been to lead to a union or confederation between it's members, akin to how the European Steel and Coal Community eventually became the European Union.