What this is instead, is a good exercise in demonstrating the incompetence of all parties in not seeing this coming given past GOP rhetoric and when Trump, for the Liberals, won the election.  We may be a nation of peace, but there are many that are not that threaten our way of life in Canada.  The fact that even the Liberals realize this when we can no longer count 100% on the American military umbrella, demonstrates this to be true.  We have neglected the men and women who serve our country through chronic underfunding.  They serve so that we can be armchair peace or activist warriors.   I wish for them to be fully equipped to properly defend our freedoms through cyber warfare, combat, peacekeeping....whatever mission we throw at them.  If taxes go up exponentially, it's simply due to a need to re-balance our priorities in our new reality.  It'll be more painful given that the Liberals have already busted well through their deficit promises.