FIRST PERSON | I've seen Ukraine's scars. As a Canadian veteran, military spending will decide my vote

FIRST PERSON | I've seen Ukraine's scars. As a Canadian veteran, military spending will decide my vote

When Andriy Tovstiuk, a Ukrainian Canadian veteran, returned to wartime Ukraine in 2023, it caused him to consider important questions about Canada’s defence policies in an increasingly uncertain world.

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This First Person article is the experience of Andriy Tovstiuk, a Ukrainian Canadian veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces living in Edmonton. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.  In March 2023, I returned to Ukraine for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion began a year earlier. When I was there with Operation Unifier in 2019 and 2020, I wore the uniform of the Canadian Armed Forces and was ther…