Canada will reach the NATO objective on defense expenses in 2025. Prime Minister Mark Carry's promise
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday, June 9, that the country will reach this year the objective of allocating 2% of GDP of defense expenses, five years earlier than the deadlines.
Mark Carry/Photo: X.
The prime minister's announcement comes less than a week after Canada hosts the G7 summit in Alberta, an event that President Donald Trump will attend, writes Politico.
Cariy presented the new expenses as a necessary reaction in a more dangerous world, which made Canada more vulnerable to Arctic threats and less protected by Americans.
“A new imperialism threatens. Medium powers must compete for interests and attention, knowing that if they are not at the table, I am in the menu”, Cariy said, repeating a phrase often used in his speeches before officially entering politics.
“Our fundamental objective in all this is to protect Canadians, not to satisfy NATO accountants. But now the United States is beginning to monetize his hegemony, charging taxes for access to his markets and reducing the contribution regarding our collective security. ”“he added.
On June 5, Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, proposed that the leaders of the Alliance Member States accept, at the end of the month, the increase of defense budgets to 5% of GDP, to cover the costs of increased military capacities.
“I will propose a global investment plan that will sum up 5% of GDP As an investment in defense: 3.5% of GDP exclusively defense expenses based on global costs to achieve the new capacity objectives that ministers have just agreed and 1.5% of GDP Defense and security investments, such as infrastructures and industry“Rutte said at a press conference, after a meeting of defense ministers in NATO Member States in Brussels, reports EFE and Reuters, taken over by Agerpres.
Margarita Robles, the Spanish Minister of Defense, said that his country can reach the set goals without increasing investments, according to El Mundo. However, Rutte ignores Spain and confirms that he will propose 5%defense expenses.
