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allies that won’t reach the requisite benchmark for defense spending, and won’t likely hit it for several years.has prompted several allies to dramatically increase spending. Of the 32 countries in the alliance, Iceland does not have a military, and 23 countries are expected to meet the benchmark, according to recently released
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair acknowledged last week that it should reach that marker by the end of the decade. NATO projected that it will spend about 1.37% of its GDP in 2024. Canada is “probably the biggest laggard within the Alliance right now,” Daniel Kochis, a foreign policy analyst who focuses on NATO for the Hudson Institute, told the. “Oftentimes it’s the European countries, some of the bigger European countries, which I think receive a lot of criticism for their lack of spending, but Canada, in terms of its economy size, in terms of its role in the world, is well under spending under the Trudeau Government.
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