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Canada a laggard in NATO alliance
Up from only six countries prior to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, all of our major allies are meeting their funding commitments within NATO when it comes to defending Ukraine from Russian aggression.
But Canada, a founding member of NATO, isn’t one of them.
Figures released by NATO this week put Canada’s current annual expenditure on defence at 1.37% of GDP.
That’s the sixth lowest in NATO, ahead of only Belgium (1.3%), Luxembourg (1.29%), Slovenia (1.29%), Spain (1.28%) and Iceland, which doesn’t have a standing army but is vital to the NATO alliance for strategic purposes.
By contrast, every one of our major allies in the G7 that are also members of NATO — the U.S. at 3.38%, U.K. at 2.33%, Germany at 2.12%, France at 2.06% and Italy at 1.49% — are allocating more as a percentage of GDP to defence than Canada.
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