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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (11643)	12/10/2001 4:36:47 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Some Canadian Budget Highlights (Not large amounts on a world scale, but it is interesting to see how it is being allocated in these times) Budget includes the following increases over prior budgets. $7.7 billion over five years to enhance security, including: $2.2 billion for new air security agency; $1.6 billion for intelligence and policing; $1.2 billion to improve border security and efficiency; $1.2 billion for the Defence Department; $1 billion for screening entrants to Canada. C$12 each way user fee for domestic flights, C$24 each way user fee for international flights. Military increase to be spent on - $300 million for capital spending over two years. - $210 million over two years for Operation Apollo, the campaign against terrorism. - $119 million over five years to double the capacity of Joint Task Force Two, elite anti-terrorist unit. - $570 million shared with other agencies and departments over five years for emergency preparedness and expanded capacity to deal with nuclear, chemical and biological threats. - No increase in authorized manpower of 60,000.