Canada is not quite as far ahead on defence spending as NATO predicted last year, according to the latest annual report compiled by NATO’s secretary general.
The report, released Thursday in Brussels by NATO Sec.-Gen. Jens Stoltenberg, shows Canada spent 1.36 per cent of its gross domestic product on the military and new defence hardware in 2021.
That’s a slight dip from the 1.39 per cent of GDP projected for Canada’s defence budget in the western military alliance’s last assessment of member nations, which was published last June.
NATO calls on its members to spend at least two per cent of national GDP on
