Trudeau schooled on commitment at NATO meetings

Trudeau announced the commitment that Canada would reach the 2 per cent threshold by 2032. Beyond promising a deadline date, he made no comments on how the Canadian government would achieve the feat.  

The 2024 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit this week was a serious and frank affair reflecting the world’s mounting geopolitical tensions. The 32 country defense alliance met to deliberate “how to continue to protect their one billion citizens as the world faces the most dangerous security environment since the Cold War.” Of gravest concern was NATO’s support for Ukraine in its continuing war with Russia and its axis of China, Iran and North Korea. There were equally weighty matters relating to the Hamas-Israeli war, the increasingly aggressive actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces with Taiwan and in South China Sea, and the CCP’s malevolent cyber campaigns.

Political pundits and military observers expected the NATO meetings to be particularly rough for the Ca…