Thursday's letters: Boost GST to pay for defence

I am advocating for a one-per-cent increase to the GST.
We need a $10-billion-dollar increase to the defence budget immediately and a raise to $60 billion next year. I am ashamed that we expect to operate a defence force with 50-year-old equipment.
Every country in the world wants to take over Canada. To sit here with our head in our nether regions is very short-sighted. Buy Saab Sea Gripen NG fighters immediately, an aircraft that we can afford. Two hundred would be a good start. The