Canada to Become Only NATO Member Missing Defence Spending Target in 2024, US Ambassador Says

Published on May 27, 2024

U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen says Canada may soon become the only NATO member failing to meet the minimum defence spending requirement of 2 percent. “At the end of 2024, the way projections are looking, Canada will be the only country in NATO that is not spending at least 2 percent of its GDP on defence and does not have a plan to get there,” Mr. Cohen said in a May 26 interview with Global News. “Canada has moved within NATO from being a bit of an outlier to being the outlier in the entire alliance.” His remarks come two days after a bipartisan group of 23 U.S. senators wrote a letter urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet Canada’s NATO spending obligations....

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