Public Sentiment Turns Hawkish: Canadians Favour Boosting Defence Spending - Spencer Fernando

The New Democratic Party (NDP) supports the goal of increasing military spending to 2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Public Sentiment Turns Hawkish: Canadians Favour Boosting Defence Spending - Spencer Fernando

The Canadian Armed Forces have been underfunded for decades. Under both Liberal & Conservative Governments, Canada has failed to spend 2% of GDP on our military, a failure that has been left unresolved despite our country pledging to do so. In 2006, we agreed - alongside our NATO allies - to link military spending targets to GDP, and that pledge was strengthened in 2014. But during that time, we never hit that target. This understanding continue…

The Norwegian finance minister, and former NATO secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, motivated the increase announced today in military spending of 17 billion crowns, equal to about 1.46 billion euros, stating that “Russia is more aggressive.” “They have moved many of their troops from the northern part to Ukraine but they have demonstrated their ability to invade their neighbors and so we decided to considerably increase our defense spending,” remarked…