In many respects, Tuesday’s federal budget is expected to flip a long-established script for the Canadian military and the Department of National Defence.

Instead of being the institutional embodiment of the Charles Dickens character Oliver Twist — the orphan who asked for more — they are likely going to be in the uncomfortable position of having so much cash it will be hard to keep up.

That will stand in contrast to other federal departments that have been told to tighten their belts to help pay for what Prime Minister Mark Carney has termed “generational investments” in not only the military but federal infrastructure.

Those investments will take place assuming the Liberal government can muster enough votes among opposition parties to see the measures pass.

But that is a debate that

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