Carney commits Canada to major increase in military spending in new NATO defence pledge

Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney is greeted by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, right, and Netherland’s Prime Minister Dick Schoof at the NATO summit Wednesday.Geert Vanden Wijngaert/The Associated Press Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to the biggest increase in military spending since the Second World War as part of a NATO pledge Wednesday designed to both prepare for the growing threat of Russian expansionism and to keep Donald Trump from quitting the Western alliance. Mr. Carney and leaders of 31 member countries agreed to a joint statement at The Hague Wednesday saying they would…