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April 7, 2023 | International, Other Defence

ANALYSIS | NATO is getting ready to twist Canada's arm on defence spending | CBC News

NATO leaders' summits tend to be polite affairs ? but Sec.?Gen.?Jens Stoltenberg may have been needling Canada when he told foreign ministers recently the alliance sees the 2 per cent of GDP defence spending target "not as a ceiling but a floor."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-canada-defence-spending-1.6804733

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