Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, smiles as they attend nursing and paramedic programs at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Trudeau spent the day in the city and announced an increase in healthcare funding for Manitoba.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is urging the federal government to speed up its plan to reach NATO's spending benchmark in order to save the Canada-U.S. trade relationship ahead of potentially shifting sands south of the border.Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, right, is seen with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attending nursing and paramedic programs at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg on Feb. 15, 2024.
"I want Canadians to see this as a national security thing. It's an investment in the Canadian Armed Forces, but I encourage Canadians to think about this also as an investment in trade," Kinew told reporters before going into closed-door meetings. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, chair of this year's meetings, said Tuesday the provinces are working to maintain that relationship, no matter who wins, given the U.S. buys about three-quarters of Canada's exports.Trudeau says Canada can meet NATO's military spending benchmark by 2032
"I am concerned that if we don't hit that two per cent target within the next four years ... it is going to become a trade issue, it is going to become a trade irritant."Premier Doug Ford also told reporters he supports the government moving the target to appease the United States. "NATO was busted until I came along," Trump said at a rally earlier this year. "I said, 'Everybody's gonna pay.' They said, 'Well, if we don't pay, are you still going to protect us?' I said, 'Absolutely not.' They couldn't believe the answer."In May, a group of U.S. senators from both major parties sent a letter to Trudeau urging the Liberal government to boost defence spending to the NATO target.
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