The finance minister’s office is refusing to release data to back up recent claims by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada will substantially accelerate its defence spending.
“Our fiscal framework has already provisioned to achieve four per cent of GDP in total defence spending by the end of this decade, ahead of NATO’s timetable,” Carney told the CANSEC Defence conference in Ottawa in May, a claim he later repeated at a press conference in June.
Carney is spending money. Just not in Canada …
NATO’s European members and Canada have signaled a readiness to fully take over the financing of Ukraine’s fight against Russia
