Trump wants NATO to spend 5% of the defense. What does the Canadian side leaders say? – national

Federal party leaders and candidates Upcoming election Tell me that they are determined to meet in Canada NATO current Defense costs The target is twice as much as this obligation, which resists the call of cocoons to the allies.

US President Donald Trump, NATO members’ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said they wanted to spend at least five percent of repeated protective GDP in Brussels.

“I don’t say a night,” he said, “We say we say that NATO should spend the NATO to spend the NATO’s self-determined and expressed threats.”

“We are today as we are still today and we intend to continue. But it means a real alliance. That means that our partners say our partners should increase their capabilities,” he said.

He asked if the US was in line with five percent, Rubio said, “Of course we are going there now.”

According to NATO figures, The United States was expended to spend 3.38 percent last year, the cost of expenditures in the last decade.

Trump’s calls have increased the pressure from Canada, which is currently the target of eight percent of the 32nd NATO member falls shortly. Last year spent 1.37 percent.

Canada’s defense costs, several complainants transformed the country to the United States – even NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in an oval office session last month.

White House called on NATO allies to hit two percent until June, NATO leaders will gather for the annual summit, and then they will be collected together with the commitment to further spending.

Ahuntsic-carermanville’s Montreal-Carermille’s Montreal-Carientville’s liberal candidate, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, said that correspondents in Brussels are determined to increase defense costs.

Again, he added that NATO should be aligned in front of Russia – a reference to Russia with the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the occupation of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Russian President Vladimir Putin to be traced closer.

“We are all agreeing that Russia is a threat. If not, I do not know why we need to increase the cost of defense,” Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

“We all know that we live in a dangerous world, and we have to do more in this sense. We are ready to do more work in Canada and have to do more.”

Behold, the federal party leaders have to increase the defense costs of Canada and gather NATO commitments, to fulfill their obligations for the prevailing of the campaign threats.

Liberal leader Mark Carney called for a liberal government that he would face two percentage targets before 2030.

Carney promised to modernize the recruitment process for the Canadian Armed Forces and resolve the lack of more than 14,000 CAF members. He said that salaries will increase the amount of undefined the amount, it will do this to make it more of the main apartment and health and childcare services.

He also promised to modernize and accelerate military procurements and prioritizing the production of “Canadian” equipment.

These investments will be a priority for the Arctic security and Norade modernization.

“We will not accelerate an unprecedented investment in our armed forces that we have helped support and defend each inch of our sovereign abroad, on March 25 in the announcement of a defense platform in Halifax.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that a government he led will meet with two percentage targets in Canada, but this did not set a timeline.

He says the conservatives use additional income earned by the expanded trade deal with the United States, in response to Trump’s Canadian tariffs, CAFA is negotiating to invest. Foreign aid and public service will further release the frontal defense financing of the “bureaucracy”.

“We will hit our two percent, we will take control of the Chinese and Russians from the Chinese and Russians, we will be a really sovereign folk with strong armed forces that can protect us.”

“We will not do this to make this President Trump. We will do it for Canada, especially America’s growing ambivalence. … Canada will carry its weight.”

The Trump management asked for five percent of the Trump administration, Poilievre, Trois-Riviere, “We will do our decisions on how much we spend.”

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Before naming the election, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said the government will undertake to meet with the target of two percent by 2032.

Singh, on March 16, on March 16, on March 16, in the late March 16. At the end of military housing shortages, increasing a newly affordable house, increase military salary and prioritizing the purchase and sale of Canadian military equipment, he said.

He added that the Arctic defense investments must be invested in northern communities, including infrastructure.

“We can’t separate the two,” he said. “Thus, we must find investments in north and support communities to defend it. We believe that these are both deep and we will find the ways of these investments.

Singh has not appealed to the NDP defense platform on the campaign trail so far.

Speaking in the background, an NDP campaign, said that “Donald Trump told us” in Canada, “he said.

NDP said that this spending is best to increase the best for Canadians and is economically possible.

Block Quebecois platform By the end of this decade of this decade, the two percent spent on the target of this decade, first of all, increasing defense investment in Quebec this call to hit the target by the end of this decade.

Green Party “Canada protect” section Their platform is a note of NATO. The party wants to “create a common diplomatic and economic front” to create a general diplomatic and economic front with other like-minded democracies. “

The goal is to establish red lines and warn about the government’s management and major economic events on joint violence against the sovereignty of any member of the US economic bloc. “

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the government in February, will increase defense costs from 2.33 percent to 2.33 percent of GDP to 2027.

France told journalists in Brussels on Brussels on Friday, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, 3 percent, “On the level of American defense costs”, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot. France was expended by more than two percent last year.

Last year, the highest defender in the NATO Alliance, Poland, 2024, distributed 4.12 percent of GDP for military spending.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said NATO members worked on the next summit on the next summit in the next summit.

“It is also important to spend more intelligent, as important,” said Trump’s call call for five percent target “a very high ambition.”

– With documents from Associated Press