Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn't commit to doing so.

Defence Minister Bill Blair says it could take ‘as much as two years to get to that level of capability.’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last summer that he expected Canada to reach the alliance’s defence spending target by 2032.

Canada’s political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the “51st state,” as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.

Facing U.S. President Donald Trump's ongoing criticism of Canada's military spending, Defence Minister Bill Blair says it's possible for the country to meet NATO's military investment benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product in two years.

Speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump also said he will press NATO members to increase their defence spending target to five per cent of GDP.

It may be too extreme for Canada or Denmark to view the U.S. as an enemy in the wake of Trump annexation threats, but the line between enmity and amity is currently blurred.

European nations are funding a controversial United Nations group linked to Palestinian terrorism — while shirking their obligations to NATO, records show.

OTTAWA — Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn't commit to doing so. NATO members have all committed to ...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn’t commit to doing so. NATO members have all committed to ...

Current and former European and US officials have raised concerns about some of President Donald Trump’s picks for top intelligence posts.

Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jennie Carignan, talks military procurement. With Donald Trump's relentless pressure on NATO countries to pay more, could a different, faster way of procuring military hardware be possible?

Canada’s Business Council is pushing to triple the country’s military spending while cutting other government programs. This strategy, tied to NATO commitments and US trade relations, would shift billions away from social programs toward defense contractors.