"Canada First Defence Strategy" Under Mohawk Microscope

by Katenies; Monday July 21, 2008 - Mohawk Nation News (Via ROAD Network)
http://roadnetwork.org/main/html/article/384

MNN. July 16, 2008. Canada's military build-up is meant to try to attack “people of color” world wide, steal our resources and eliminate our population. There is a big recruitment campaign for Indigenous youth going on. They want 20% of the armed forces to be native. That way it will look like we approve of what they are doing. No money to heal. No money to educate. No money to pay the debt to Indigenous people. But money to kill!

The U.S. inspired "Canada First Defence Strategy" (CFDS) is basically written from a capitalistic economic viewpoint. No thought has been given to sustainable development. Canadians don’t support the military buildup. The "Strategy" is an aggressive profit-driven scheme designed to benefit career soldiers and industry.

It was posted online on June 19 2008 with color photos of “Generalissimo" Stephen Harper and Peter “Fancies-himself-to-be-Idi Amin” MacKay. US military sites like “DefenseIndustryDaily” [express] skepticism about Canada's stability and its ability to follow through.

Harper points out that the military will be "Supported by predictable, long-term funding...” [i.e. tax and resource exploitation] so that industry can make piles of money. The plan to rebuild Canada's armed forces will provide unprecedented opportunities for international industry. It will be a bigger cash cow than World War II. They are trying to impress their foreign investors and the subsidized corporations who will build war stuff instead [of] what we really need, housing, schools, hospitals and environmental detoxification programs.

Pete lists the 3 roles of the military, “.. at home... in the defence of North America, and to project leadership abroad" which means "attack anyone anywhere if they get in the way”.

Their six core missions are: "Conduct daily domestic and continental operations, especially the Arctic? [are we under attack from endangered species like the polar bears and beluga whales?]; Support the 2010 Olympics; Respond to major terrorist attacks; Support civilian authorities in Canada; Lead international operations; and respond to crises".

The “whole-of-government approach” is to meet domestic and international security requirements. This could mean totalitarianism.

"STABLE PREDICTABLE FUNDING" means military spending on a grand scale and "A Military in Partnership with Canadian Industry".

There is a goal to extract the resources without interference from the Indigenous owners. Since commodity manufacturing is saturated and the capitalists have created scarcity, plenty of money will be made in war materials and reconstruction by the military and industrial sectors using cheap labor.

CANADA IS BUDGETING $490 BILLION FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS. Defense funding will rise by 2 percent starting in 2011, from approximately $18 billion in 2008 to over $30 billion in 2027.

The Government plans to "Increase the number of military personnel to 70,000 Regular Forces and 30,000 Reserve Forces". Programs like “Bold Eagle” are targeting Native youth, especially in the North to exploit the Indigenous knowledge of the land and destroy Indigenous sovereignty at the same time.

Canada is concerned about controlling sovereignty in the Arctic which is owned by the Indigenous people. “Changing weather patterns are destroying the environment making sea traffic through the Northwest Passage accessible to shipping, tourism and resource exploration”. They aren't too worried about the extinction of the polar bears either.

Their domestic security is based on “fear” of “foreign encroachments” on “Canada's” [Indigenous] natural resources.

The military will be at the 2010 Olympics where Indigenous are opposed to development which is raping and contaminating our land in British Columbia.

"The Forces must assist other government departments in addressing such security concerns as over-fishing, organized crime, drug- and people-smuggling and environmental degradation." This sounds like policing that is targeting ordinary people and particularly Indigenous.

Trenton near Tyendinaga is Canada's largest air force base which they intend to expand to put a NATO Forward Operating Base (FOB) there, where Globemasters can fly soldiers and equipment to war zones anywhere in the world.

Canada wants credibility with the Pentagon by working under them. Canadian soldiers must take orders from U.S. soldiers such as running over civilians in Afghanistan. Canada will go to war alongside "like minded" allies with or without UN approval, just like the US went to war on Iraq. Canada and the US have worked together since 1958 when they formed NORAD. This is right after the St. Lawrence Seaway blasted away our riverside for the benefit of industries that polluted the environment. Wild animals are now registered as toxic waste. Since then they work together on “Canada Command” and the “US Northern Command”.

In "Contributing to International Peace and Security", "stability abroad" means free, unfettered access to other people's territory and resources.

The compliant media tell us that Canadian soldiers are building schools and hospitals in Afghanistan. In fact they are guarding the hundreds of mining developments like Aynak Copper Mine just a few kilometres from Kabul. This mine was bought by the Chinese Metallurgical Corporation MCC for more than $3 billion U.S. Afghanistan has gold, iron, uranium, and copper, hydrocarbons like coal and the rare element, tantalum. Kanehsatake has a huge deposit of niobium, often found with tantalum.

Where will the money come from for the "New Long-Term Funding Framework"? Presumably, the loot from Afghanistan will help provide "increased, predictable long-term funding..."

"Failed and failing states, civil wars and global terrorism" are being created so the military planners can describe the world as “volatile and unpredictable”.

"Nuclear-capable adversarial states headed by unpredictable regimes are particularly worrisome" [especially the U.S.] "The pernicious influence of Islamist militants in key regions" is the scapegoat for their military buildup and to give Israelis an excuse to go into Iran.

"Full range of challenges" sounds a lot like putting down possible Indigenous and grassroots resistance to their insane strategy. Taxpayers contribute 10% of their income tax to the military. The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Ontario Secondary School Teachers Pension are invested in the military industry through the Carlyle Group, which just bought Bell.

With this the government is buying four "C-17 Globemaster strategic lift aircraft, 17 new C-130J Hercules tactical lift aircraft, 16 CH-47F Chinook helicopters, three replenishment ships, 2,300 trucks, up to 100 Leopard 2 tanks and 6–8 Arctic/offshore patrol ships." The US has dozens of the Globemasters to carry all their war people and equipment to the war zone. They can be stuffed with piles of bombs. 12% or $60 billion will buy other big toys like 65 new Fighter planes, search & rescue planes, UAV's, ships, trucks, weapons, bombs, communications equipment, radar and satellites.

$250 billion will go to 100,000 personnel by 2028. They want highly skilled needy individuals like the laid off factory workers from the car plants and those coming in from induced famines. They want to fast track immigration too.

"National Defence is the largest property holder in the federal government which is all on unsurrendered Indigenous territory. 21,000 buildings over 50 years old and crumbling, 13,500 works including 5,500 kilometres of roads, jetties, training areas, etc. and 800 parcels of land covering 2.25 million hectares will be replaced or replenished over the next 10 to 20 years."

It's about perpetual war. $40 billion will be spent on "infrastructure" like housing. $140 billion for "readiness" training. That's $7 billion per year! This does NOT include any costs for a new major war. NEW spending is required for that.

The "Strategic Investment Plan" is to coordinate all the military spending.

"Advantage Canada", will establish an elite military society based in the northern part of Turtle Island. Military industries like Boeing, Northrop Grumman and GM are lined up at DRDC for big research and development checks to spruce up Canada's "global excellence". [See CADSI web site].

The Canadian war makers are courting corporate giants to bring them into the War Department to help them impose their plans. They will get big tax breaks and corporate welfare. Universities can grab funding too if they want to work on military projects. Might is not right! Land and resource ownership has been proven to be Indigenous and will always be. Force is being used to push through the big fraud. Canada is turning into a war economy. There's no war, but they're making one on Indigenous nations to continue stealing our possessions.

Iakoha'ko:wa
Sharbot Lake, Haudenosaunee Territory

Notes and Sources

http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/focus/first/defstra_e.asp
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Canada-Lays-Out-Fut...48...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2008.../h...

DRDC (Defence Research and Development Canada)

http://www.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/

MERCHANTS OF DEATH AT CADSI

https://www.defenceandsecurity.ca/public/index.asp?acti...fi...

RECRUITING NATIVE YOUTH

http://www.army.gc.ca/lfwa/feature_boldEagle2006.htm
http://www.army.gc.ca/boldeagle/contents.htm
http://www.forces.ca/v3/engraph/resources/subsidizededucatio...
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/4wing/news/releases_e....=6...

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