Canada and NATO allies asked by Rubio to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP

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Open this photo in gallery: From left: French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot and Germany's Foreign Affairs Minister Annalena Baerbock talk with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on April 3, 2025.Omar Havana/Getty Images Canada and other NATO allies were met by a request from the Trump administration to massively hike defence spending at the military pact’s meeting of foreign affairs ministers Thursday in Brussels. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, who attended the meeting, declined to say whether she thought Canada could increase military expenditures to reach 5 per cent of gross domestic...