Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "EU Parliament Demands Patriot Air Defenses for Ukraine" video.
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@grahamcampbell8297 As a Canadian I agree, Canada has the natural resources to restart the manufacturing of armaments but has fallen so far behind as it hasn't done so since the late 1950's. Canada during WW2 manufactured major armaments such as tanks, bombers and fighter planes which were made for and shipped to the UK, built ships and corvettes for the escort duty of merchant ships, converted ships for troop transport and had pilot training for Canadian and British pilots.
After Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Canada gifted the Russians the icebreaker Montcalm. Canada repaired 125 Soviet vessels in Canada which included provisions of sailors clothes, deck and engine room stores. 1,388 Valentine tanks; 1,348 weapons carriers; 29 radar sets; 10 “Lake” class mine sweepers; 1,051 Hurricane aircraft fighters; 37,286 tons of aluminum; 27,000 tons of copper; 882,482 tons of steel rails; 1,562 flatcar units; 3 complete plants of machine tools, 500 lathes, shapers and planers; 3 copies of unique Canadian armoured snowmobiles. Agricultural aid of 9 million bushels of wheat to eighty tons of brome grass seed, which continued after the war in Europe ended to September 1945 of 28,000 tons of flour. Which was less than what the US supplied the Soviets. By Sept 1942 a US Air Transport Command Head quarters was established in an airport Edmonton Alberta Canada, on 23 Sept 1943 that airport handled 860 different planes in a single day! Although I believe the Allied countries, became allies with one evil the Soviets in order to defeat another evil the Nazis. As Patton warned—loudly and insistently "that leaving Eastern Europe in Soviet hands, despite Stalin's peaceful pledges, would betray an American promise."
Former Prime Minister Diefenbaker cut Canada's military defence from 5% of GDP to about 2% of GDP over six years 1957-1964. That was due as Diefenbaker agreed to stop manufacturing major armaments as the US wanted to have the bulk of military spending and responsibility of all of the military manufacturing. At the time nobody would have thought there would be likes of Trump as a President or that US wouldn't stand up for democracy against dictatorships.
When Trump was president he didn't act as an ally to Canada, I believe his comment he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want”, he was referring to Canada, as Canada has not reached 2% of it's GDP on defence. April 2021 Putin formally enlarged Russia's claim to the seabed in the Arctic Ocean all the way to Canada's and Greenland's (Denmark's) exclusive zones. A situation where Putin's claiming Canadian and Danish continental shelf as the Russian continental shelf. With the ice retreating Putin wants to control the Arctic sea routes and the natural resources of the Arctic. Which is why in the last decade or so, he has built eight modern military bases, fully equipped with nuclear icebreakers, nuclear subs, airstrips and nuclear weapons. There are some Americans who to want to be isolationists and appear not to be concerned about Europe, I wonder how'd they feel about having Canada as neighbour that is occupied by Russia?
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