Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stands behind National Defence Minister Bill Blair as they hold a press conference on Canada's new defence policy at CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ont. on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Even if Canada reaches its defence spending targets by the end of the decade, it would still be "$6 billion to $7 billion" short of NATO's two per cent of GDP benchmark for member nations, says Defence Minister Bill Blair.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stands behind National Defence Minister Bill Blair as they hold a press conference on Canada's new defence policy at CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ont. on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Both Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have hinted there are more defence investments to come. The minister told senators those plans could "easily move us into that two per cent threshold."Feds announce more money for Arctic defence with few details on infrastructure The new strategy doesn't foresee the military returning to its authorized strength of 71,500 full-time members, 30,000 reservists and 5,200 Rangers until 2032.
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre arrives to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on National Defence in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The defence policy proposes a series of measures to fix the glacial pace of recruiting, including the introduction of a probationary period which would allow the military to enrol new members faster.
In a recent speech, Blair openly stated that the recruiting crisis was putting the military into a "death spiral."
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