NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his caucus would be against the federal government moving to increase its defense spending to hit NATO’s target of two per cent of GDP, calling the request from the international military alliance “arbitrary.”
“The pressure that's being applied right now is to get to two per cent. We think that that's an arbitrary number, and we don't support that number,” said Singh in an interview on CTV’s Question Period.
Canada is currently spending approximately 1.39 per cent of its GDP on defense. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pledge, which all members collectively agreed to in 2014, was to increase their military spending to at least two per cent of national gross domestic product within the next decade.
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