Carney Pledge Costs Billions

Meeting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s NATO commitments would require a $124 billion increase in annual defence spending, the Budget Office said yesterday. “It is our core responsibility,” Carney said last June 25 in promising to spend 5 percent of GDP on national defence by 2035: “I wished we didn’t have to but we do have to.”

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