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LETTER: Island Peace Committee concerned about defence strategy

The Island Peace Committee is deeply concerned about PM Mark Carney’s defence industrial strategy and its proposed huge military spending, and very much concerned how the P.E.I. government may decide to participate in the ever-deepening “Canadian military industrial complex.”

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Our concerns with the defence industrial strategy and the potential for P.E.I. involvement are as follows:

Militarism erodes human rights and normalizes violence as conflict resolution.

Money poured into weapons is money not spent on public service such as education, health care, housing, infrastructure, eradicating poverty, management of climate emergencies (fires and floods) or renewable energy—sectors that provide more jobs and long-term stability and security than the........

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