In 2025, for the first time in its history, all members of the defence bloc met the 2 per cent spending target. In 2006, NATO members agreed to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence and renewed that commitment in 2014. “Take some big economies like Spain, Italy, Belgium and Canada, were far from the two per cent mark,” he said. “They all got to the two per cent.”Trump has accused Canada in the past of being a laggard on defence spending in the NATO alliance. “It’s no question that Mark Carney is responding to the person in the White House,” he said, during a press conference in Ottawa.

Source: National Post March 26, 2026 18:18 UTC