Canada's military industrial complex finds endless war profitable too

[JohnyCanuck]

Fourth Part. “The New Fascism” in Canada and the Western World. The Armaments Industry and Canadian Colonialism

The Canadian armaments industry – backed energetically by the Canadian government – reveals the extent to which a secret, private corporate system has enormous influence in Canadian life and policy. It reveals how parliamentarians lie to Canadians and how subservience to the U.S. is welcomed and encouraged by parliamentarians serving private corporations. Finally, it is proof of what might be called a “pact of fraudulence” that contributes to death and destruction around the world.

Even opposition parties avoid confronting the issue head on, becoming complicit in murder of the innocent all over the planet. At home they are complicit in sinking Canada deeper into subservience to U.S. expansionist policies. And there’s more….

We should look at the issue in its simplest terms, first to see how a phrase like “The New Fascism” is not extreme or extravagant in relation to Canada’s armaments trade. A huge network of armament production almost unknown to Canadian voters is in operation. The Canadian government secretly supports and facilitates the activity that could not continue if the whole population was informed about it. The activity very largely contributes to U.S. actions that subvert elected governments, undertake illegal wars, violate international law, and are contemptuous of international conventions.

SNIP

“Canadian military contractors are completely integrated into the U.S. military procurement system. In fact, the U.S.–Canada Defence Production Sharing Agreements, officially spell out Canadian industrial subservience to U.S. military needs. Canada’s military contractors are considered part of the U.S. ‘defense industrial base’ and are actually defined as U.S. ‘domestic sources of supply’” (p. 40)

Continued at: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060823173917665

[silverweb]

1. No surprise.

"In fact, the U.S.–Canada Defence Production Sharing Agreements, officially spell out Canadian industrial subservience to U.S. military needs." In exchange for handsome profits.

We've been hearing it since Eisenhower's day: "War is good business" -- for the profiteers only, who, of course, never see combat or have to live with its effects.