Canada has quietly and consistently lobbied major NATO allies for months to expand the definition of what it can include under the military alliance’s defence spending benchmark, defence and government sources have told CBC News.
The notion of being able to include what the country spends on space, cyber and artificial intelligence (AI) research has been an important topic of conversation, particularly with the United States, said two sources with knowledge of the discussions.
CBC News is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The conversations were separate from intense negotiations among allies over the revised defence spending
