Canada wants to join the European Defense Plan. “It is not smart” for the country to be so dependent on the US, says Prime Minister Cary. How much did Trump ask for the golden dome

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Cariy has announced that he wants his country to join the major European Plan to strengthen Defense, Rearm Europe, until July 1, when US President Donald Trump has estimated that Canada's participation in the Golden Dome missile defense would cost Ottawa 61 billion.

Speaking on the CBC Canadian television station on Tuesday, Mark Carry said that Ottawa will join Rearm Europe – a dramatic growth plan on the European continent in the next five years – in an attempt to reduce US addiction.

“75 cents of each (Canadian) dollar of defense expenses are heading to the United States. This is not smart,” Cary told the public television station.

His statements come against the background of the US tensions, although Cary said that it is open to the idea of ​​joining the missile defense project proposed by Trump.

Donald Trump said on Tuesday, in a Social Truth post that Canada's participation in the Golden Dome missile defense would cost Ottawa $ 61 billion.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carry said last week that the country is analyzing potential investments in the proposed project, whose total cost would amount to $ 175 billion.

Defense, present in the throne speech

One day after Cariy's comments on participating in Rearm Europe, the Canadian Defense Minister told a military fair that his country wants to rapidly increase its defense capacity in the face of growing global threats. “The global security environment is volatile and uncertain today,” David McGuinty said on Wednesday, citing the Russian war in Ukraine, as well as a more assertive China.

McGuinty said that in the future the emphasis will be placed on the Arctic region, where the competing countries challenge the sovereignty of Canada.

The defense also appeared in the throne speech on Tuesday-an event that opened the new Parliament legislature, when King Charles III presented the agenda of the Government. The speech was read in person by King Charles III, the head of the Canadian state, as part of a royal visit that designed to highlight the identity and sovereignty of Trump's annexation claims.

The discourse – which was written by both king together with its councilors and the Canadian government – contains commitments of “reconstruction, reunion and investments” in the Army of Canada. The speech also emphasized the Government's goal to strengthen the defense relations with European allies and referred to the accession to the Rearm Europe Plan.

Canada, among NATO cods in terms of defense spending

The statements of Canadian officials come after the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, said that the members of the Western defense alliance-including Canada are expected to increase their annual defense expenses at a level equivalent to 5% of the GDP of each country. The NATO lens was previously 2% of GDP, but Rutte said that members should prepare to defend themselves from increasingly powerful opponents, such as Russia and China.

“Russia has a team with China, North Korea and Iran,” Rutte told a NATO forum on Monday. “They extend their armies and capabilities. They are preparing for a long -term confrontation,” he warned. The NATO's growth growth plan must be approved by the leaders of the member countries, who are to meet in The Hague at the end of June.

Canada has long been facing pressures for failure to meet NATO military expenses and has been accused last year by the president of the US representatives, Mike Johnson, of “going behind America.”

Canadian business leaders also asked their government to increase the expenses in the defense industry, presenting this as a way to stimulate the economy.

In Wednesday statements, Minister McGuinty told the representatives of the defense industry that the Cariy government will give priority to the purchase of military technology and equipment from Canadian companies.

Carcp's replica for Trump

Last week, Cary said that “high -level” discussions with the US about accession to Trump's missile defense system are taking place. The throne speech mentioned that Ottawa wants to continue discussions with the US on trade security.

The US president posted on his Social Truth network during Tuesday's evening, that the Golden Dome project would cost Canada $ 61 billion “if a separate but unequal nation remains.” “But it will cost zero dollars if they become the 51st state we value,” he added, repeating his opinion that Canada should be absorbed by the US. “They consider the offer!”, Trump said.

In reply, Cariy's office stated in a statement that the prime minister “was clear on every occasion, including in his conversations with President Trump: Canada is an independent and sovereign country and will remain so.”