We don’t need to spend on defence just because Trump tells us to

It’s not worth spending an arbitrary percentage of our GDP to prove our commitment to NATO. The blood and gold we expended in Afghanistan should have more than proven our resolve.

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, pictured in April in Washington with French President Emmanuel Macron, has said NATO members that don't spend two per cent of GDP on defence will 'be dealt with.' White House photograph by Andrea Hanks

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 23, 2018

OTTAWA—United States President Donald Trump has once again served notice that he will pressure NATO members not currently spending two per cent of their gross domestic product on defence to start ponying up the difference. That list includes Canada and about 20 other countries in the 29-nation all...

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