Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron is urging allies, including Canada, to spend more on their militaries, warning the West needs a 'harder edge for a tougher world.'
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pledging $8.1 billion in new defence spending over the next five years, as part of a larger $73-billion spending plan through the next two decades. Mercedes Stephenson explains how that money will be spent in the face of new threats and how this cash still falls short of NATO 's spending targets – Apr 8, 2024Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron is urging the U.K.
Cameron’s speech was largely directed at the U.K.’s European allies, like Spain and Italy, which have failed to meet NATO targets despite an increasingly aggressive Russia.“Some seem unwilling to invest, even as war rages on our continent,” the foreign secretary said.According to NATO estimates, Canada currently spends 1.33 per cent of its GDP on defence.
That number is expected to go up to 1.76 per cent by 2030, or $49.5 billion. The Department of National Defence’s budget last year was $26.9 billion. Last Wednesday at a NORAD modernization conference in Ottawa, the defence minister said it’s hard to persuade voters and even his own colleagues that getting to two per cent is a worthy goal in the “current fiscal environment.”
“Trying to go to cabinet, or even to Canadians, and tell them that we had to do this because we need to meet this magical threshold of two per cent.… Don’t get me wrong. It’s important, but it was really hard to convince people that,” Blair said.
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