Security spending after 9/11 tops $92B

September 8, 2011

An additional $92 billion has been spent on national security in Canada in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a report to be released Wednesday.

The study by the Ottawa-based Rideau Institute tracked the budgets for what it calls the "new national security establishment," that it says was built in response to the terrorist attacks a decade ago and includes the departments of National Defence, Foreign Affairs, Public Safety, Justice, the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the Canada Border Services Agency...

This article is available in its entirety on the CBC website at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/07/pol-911-security-spending.html.


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