Since the country started emerging from the global financial crisis, Canada's budgets have been heavy on the 'butter,' and short on the 'guns.'
Military spending as a percentage of GDP dwindled in the latter years of the Harper Government, and remained low throughout the Trudeau era, with Canada falling short of our NATO commitments even as overall federal spending surged.
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