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Podcast: Brian Crombie Radio Hour
Episode: Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1323 - Canada's Defense Spending with Richard Shimooka
Description: Brian speaks with Richard Shimooka. Richard is a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He was a Senior Fellow at the Defense Management Studies Programme at Queen’s University from 2007–2012, and a Research Fellow at the Conference of Defense Associations Institute from 2012-2017. Richard's works covers a diverse array of topics, including Canadian and American foreign and defense policy, modern air power and defense procurement. Richard Shimooka talks about the Canada’s defense spending. We discuss the NATO obligation to spend 2% of GDP, our military preparedness, our needs, the Arctic, Ukraine, Russia, Trump and sovereignty and if not now, when!