Ndp S Singh Thinks Nato Spending Target Is Arbitrary
“The pressure is on at the moment to reach 2%. “We believe this is an arbitrary number and we do not support that number,” Singh said in an interview with CTV’s Question Period. Canada currently spends about 1.39 percent of its GDP on defense. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commitment, collectively agreed upon by all members in 2014, was to increase their military spending to at least two percent of national gross domestic product within the next decade....