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Released in April, Canada’s latest defence policy paper formalized what was already obvious: that Canada will never reach
’s spending target as the lodestar of Canadian defence policy. Perhaps it’s time to forget two per cent. The basic story is well known: in 2014, ’s sake. Instead, it should spend a figure that is consistent with the country’s security needs and long-term national interests. What those interests are, however, is more complicated, and it’s a conversation we are not particularly good at in this country. Lost amid the handwringing about Canada’s status as a spending laggard in
’s median defence spending—measured as a percentage of GDP—between 1991 and 2003. The number happened to be 2.05 per cent, and a rounded-down number was endorsed by
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