[sust-mar] Shameful! It's a war budget that will exacerbate global warming & poverty.

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello Sust-Mar,

Canada’s new budget is a dangerous, reckless war budget. It’s budget to prepare for a global war against Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela. It’s also a budget for a class war against women, youth, the poor, and immigrants.

You can watch Finance Minister Champagne’s budget speech on CPAC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GY6Z8pyxwU

The full “Building Canada Strong” budget report at 493-page is here: https://www.budget.canada.ca/2025/report-rapport/pdf/budget-2025.pdf

The Carney Liberal government has committed to massively increasing the military budget by an additional $81 billion over the next five years and reaching the NATO 5% GDP target by 2035, which will mean $150 billion/year. It will also establish a defence procurement agency and defence industrial strategy, but did not mention even once “green economy” or “care economy”.

The federal budget will invest in 1,000 more border guards and 1,000 more RCMP officers and recruit more soldiers. These are male-dominated professions.

Military spending is not productive for the economy and not good for women. The federal budget admits that military spending benefits “majority men” in the gender impacts report in Annex 6. https://www.budget.canada.ca/2025/report-rapport/anx6-en.html#a3

Moreover, the federal government will be investing in new fossil fuel-powered submarines, more combat and surveillance aircraft, greater militarization of the north etc. that will exacerbate the climate crisis. More money on carbon-intensive militarism will make it impossible to decarbonize the reach the Paris Agreement target to stabilize the climate.

We are facing catastrophic climate change with tipping points that are already being breached: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/coral-reefs-ice-sheets-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-global-heating-scientists-report

Canada’s budget is at odds with the UN. In September, the UN Secretary General released an important report in response to a UN General Assembly request that opposed rising military spending in member states “The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future”: https://www.un.org/en/peace-and-security/the-true-cost-of-peace Canada has done the exact opposite.

There is also no mention of peacekeeping and little peace in Canada’s budget, but NATO is mentioned 26 times, armed force 39 times, and defence 149 times. By contrast, climate change is mentioned 20 times.

The federal budget commits funding to reconstruct Ukraine (a proxy war that the US/NATO started) but does not mention reconstructing Gaza/Palestine (all the NATO countries helped arm Israel, a NATO partner, commit a genocide).

I also want to mention that the 25th anniversary of UN Security Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security was last month. The UN Secretary General released his report on WPS: https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/report/united-nations-security-council-women-and-peace-and-security-report-of-the-secretary-general/n2523645-1.pdf

*The UN WPS report expressly called for cutting military spending and the last paragraph states: “women peacebuilders remain at the front lines of all these crises. Their universal message to
governments and armed actors is unequivocal: end the wars, respect international law
and disarm.” Canada is doing the exact opposite: Canada is arming and planning to wage more war.

The Liberal government’s budget is shameful and will worsen poverty, violence, environmental degradation and climate collapse. What I found most despicable is that the loudest cheers and standing ovations from the Liberal bench was when Finance Minister Champagne detailed military spending. Even worse, there is no opposition to this massive increase to military spending by the other political parties.

The future for our children and grandchildren is very grim.

Upcoming event in Toronto: “Socialist Action Canada Fall Education Conference 2025: The Status Quo is Over” on Saturday, November 15th, Online and In Person, 427 Bloor St West, Toronto
(1)Unmasking Canadian Imperialism @ 2:00 pm EST / 11:00 am PST
with speakers: Yves Engler, Sara Rasikh, and Tamara Lorincz
(2)Reform or Revolution: Insurgent Candidacies in Capitalist Parties @ 4:00 pm EST / 1:00 pm PST
with speakers: speakers: John Pottinger, Dirka Prout, and Gary Porter
(3)Democratic Rights Under Attack in the Workers' Movement @ 6:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm PST
with speakers: Adriana Cumming-Teicher, Julius Arscott, and Mike Palecek

Finally, I will be defending my dissertation on November 20th, finally after so many years: “In the Line of Fire: Military Emissions, the National Security Exemption and NATO Expansion in Climate Governance” https://balsillieschool.ca/event/phd-dissertation-defence-in-the-line-of-fire-military-emissions-the-national-security-exemption-and-nato-expansion-in-climate-governance/

In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
Tamara
--
This is the ANNOUNCEMENT email listserv set up by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network.This list is EXCLUSIVELY to be used for announcements of peace and justice work.

Everyone is welcome to use this list to share event announcements, calls to collaborate or sign on to a particular project or campaign, or announcements of peace work you or allied organisations are doing. However it will no longer be used for discussion, sharing news articles, debate, etc.

Note that a separate list exists for network business and members only. More information on the network is online at: peaceandjusticenetwork.ca With any network or listserv questions, please contact: canadapeaceandjustice at gmail.com<mailto:canadapeaceandjustice at gmail.com>
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Announcement List - Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to canadapeacenetwork+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com<mailto:canadapeacenetwork+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com>.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/canadapeacenetwork/YT1PR01MB85378AB750ECAF018FB177ABA4C5A%40YT1PR01MB8537.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/canadapeacenetwork/YT1PR01MB85378AB750ECAF018FB177ABA4C5A%40YT1PR01MB8537.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.web.net/pipermail/sust-mar/attachments/20251105/d493c2da/attachment-0001.htm>