5% defence spending target ‘long overdue,’ says Okanagan MP

Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to spending 5 per cent of its GDP on defence by 2035. Scott Anderson approves of the idea so long as it’s not an ‘accounting sleight of hand’ Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to spending five per cent of its GDP on defence by 2035, a plan that Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee MP Scott Anderson says is “long overdue,” though he hopes the target won’t be met by “artificially” boosting defence expenditures. Carney signed off on the lofty defence spending target in the Netherlands Wednesday, June 25, when other leaders of the NATO…