Canada’s apparent unwillingness (or inability) to meet NATO’s defence spending target has not dented the country’s reputation among its allies, one of the country’s former top diplomats told MPs recently.
But the longer the war between Russia and Ukraine lasts, the more impatient other nations are likely to become, said former Canadian ambassador to NATO Kerry Buck.
Buck made her remarks before the House of Commons defence committee on Friday — just days after a report in the Washington Post, citing leaked Pentagon intelligence documents, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told allies that Canada will not meet NATO’s defence spending benchmark of two
