OTTAWA — The head of the NATO military alliance threatened to raise the heat on Canada and other laggards on Wednesday as he called on member countries to…
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg specifically called for the alliance’s 30 members to recommit to spending two per cent of their national gross domestic product on defence, as Russia’s war in Ukraine and other threats eat into military budgets.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Rather than raising or lowering the bar, Stoltenberg suggested all allies should be forced to clear it where it is. Only five NATO allies were projected to spend less of their GDP on the military: Slovenia, Turkiye, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg. Slovenia and Spain are among those countries that have committed to meeting the two-per-cent target in the next few years.
There appears to be little political appetite in Ottawa for a significant new injection of cash into the military beyond what has already been promised, particularly as the Trudeau government faces pressure to spend more in other areas such as health care. Still, if other allies heed Stoltenberg’s call and try to harden the spending target, it would put real pressure on Canada, said defence analyst David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute think tank in Ottawa.
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