OUR POLICY: MADE IN AMERICA.

This article focuses on the relationship between the United States and Canada regarding military defense. Of the pledged $12.8 billion in new defence funds paraded by Liberal spin doctors as the biggest spending hike for the military in 20 years, only $1 billion will be invested during the next 24 months, the likely maximum tenure of the Paul Martin minority. About the only fact that all sides who are in the know agree on is that Canadian defence policy is now being decided to an astonishing degree behind closed doors at the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado, where 50 senior U.S. and Canadian military planners are debating joint future activities. If the rogue nations that United States President George Bush classifies as belonging to the "axis of evil" ever decide to attack the U.S., it would be with weapons of mass destruction hidden in ships, trucks or civilian planes. Intercontinental ballistic missiles are not only far too expensive, but satellite cameras could immediately identify their launchers, which would be atomized by U.S. cruise missiles launched from submarines permanently stationed off the Iranian and North Korean shores.