15) According to the CBC and my friend Jerry who pointed this out, this past year saw a 1B$ cut to the canadian forces budget. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/department-national-defence-budget-billion-1.6981974 all the while increasing requirements of what it was supposed to be doing with the money it had. There's other things than funding the canadian forces canada should be doing, and this is typical for liberal governments but now is not the time to be nickle and diming our armed forces given stuff like #14 - we need to properly fund our armed forces enough to handle some of the extra work they are going to be expected to do at the *very least*.
14) *edit* actually let's be more specific
> After the September 11 attacks, the NORAD Air Warning Center's mission included the interior airspace of North America.[35] https://web.archive.org/web/20121005065851/http://www.norad.mil/about/cmoc_2.html
Revert this change, and take this control over canadian airspace from NORAD and give it explicitly to the Canadian Air Force