(Canadian) Security spending in wake of 9/11 tops $92B, report finds

[alp227]

Source: CBC News

An additional $92 billion has been spent on national security in Canada in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a report to be released Wednesday.

The study by the Ottawa-based Rideau Institute tracked the budgets for what it calls the "new national security establishment," which includes the departments of National Defence, Foreign Affairs, Public Safety, Justice, the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the Canada Border Services Agency.

The study found that since 2000-01, Canada has dedicated $92 billion more to national security spending than it would have if budgets had remained in line with spending levels before the attacks in 2001.

This fiscal year, Canada will spend $34 billion on national security, $17 billion more ($13 billion adjusted for inflation) than it would have spent pre-9/11, according to the Rideau Institute's calculations.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/07/pol-911-security-spending.html

[RC]

1. And you are safer in Canada than here.

[Amonester]

3. alCIAda or any violent 'fringe' organized-crime group cannot take over

Canada, or any other so-called democratic country, so 'being safer' doesn't really mean anything.

Nobody's safer from crossing a street today than anyone was before 2001.

[InkAddict]

2. With that much spent, it will be hard to

BLAME CANADA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SDrqa-eTXU&feature=related