NATO’s Secretary General is not denying that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately told the alliance Canada will never meet a defence spending target of two per cent of GDP.
“I’m talking and I’m consulting and I’m meeting with heads of state and government, prime ministers and presidents, across the lines almost every week,” Jens Stoltenberg said in a Canadian exclusive interview on CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos Tuesday. "There’s no way I can continue to sit down, discuss, with them if I start to report from each and every of those conversations.”
NATO allies – including Canada – agreed in 2014 to a target of two per cent of GDP on defence spending. Canada spent 1.29 per cent of its GDP on defence in 2022, according to NATO’s annual report.privately told NATO officials Canada will never meet the two per cent targetAt the time of that report, the prime minister also didn’t deny it but insisted, “I continue to say and will always say that Canada is a reliable partner to NATO, a reliable partner around the world.
He said the alliance is in the process of working on a new defence spending target for NATO’s upcoming July summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Stoltenberg has previously said he wants NATO members to see two per cent of GDP as the ‘floor’ and not the ‘ceiling’. “Canada will be part of that agreement,” he said, “I also expect Canada to deliver on the agreement we will make.”
You can watch Vassy Kapelos’s Canadian exclusive interview with Jens Stoltenberg in the video at the top of this article.
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