So much more spending could be on Canadians. Even job subsidies for Canadian industries.

We need to seriously question NATO membership. NATO is a US force expansion organization under US colonial control. Even if you believe the absurdity of it being a defensive alliance, Canada should understand the obvious that the only military threat to it comes from the US, and the other NATO colonies will not intervene to protect Canada.

Not only with NATO/US always lie to us that Russian interventions are unprovoked aggression, even if Russia were militarist aggressive, our commitment to defend Europe is extremely assymetric (they will never defend us from US. We won't defend Greenland from US either). If the US tells EU to help it destroy/isolate Canada economically, it will. Including buying all of its resources from the US.

At political level, Europe and Canada's values are only to gaslight their people in colonial subservience to CIA/US empire agenda. Canada desperately needs to stop trying to be the best puppy in the pen, hoping that tying a cherry stem with their tongue gets master's approval, and make whatever US/NATO subservient acts dependent on trade deals.

It's blatantly absurd to expect reward for subjugation (stealing social/economic funds) of Canadians, especially when more than 1 penny will be spent on purchases from despotic militarist nation with declared intention to destroy us. Pretending that DNC will say "Look how much Canada still loves us by buying all of our weapons. Let's be nicer to them instead of beating them harder"

Aggressively decouple from US to force US to be nicer to us is ONLY path forward. That does not mean begging EU to choose us over the US, because they won't.