On Monday, the day of the total solar eclipse, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau donned a pair of blackout glasses. Not to stare at the sun, but to avoid seeing what is right in front of him: his abject failure to rebuild Canada’s armed forces.

Trudeau chose Monday morning to announce defense spending plans of $8.1 billion over five years and $73 billion over 20 years, to be included in the upcoming Budget 2024. Sounds like a lot, but a twenty-year spending horizon for anything is laughable in political terms: no government lives long enough to see that through unless they’re the Communist Party of China. And when you do the math, it’s a drop in the proverbial bucket compared to what our nation needs.