A Canada-led NATO of the North would solve two of our problems at once

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Lloyd Axworthy is chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council and a former Canadian foreign minister. Allan Rock is a former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, and a former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations. The Economist recently insisted that Canada’s “miserly” spending on defence is “increasingly embarrassing.” Last month the Wall Street Journal described us as a “NATO free-rider” since our defence budget comes well below NATO’s expectation of 2 per cent of GDP. And at a July Senate confirmation hearing for Lieutenant General Gregory M. Guillot as the new commander of the North American...