Trudeau is right to resist defence lobby’s call for more military spending

NATO doesn’t do holistic peace. Always demanding more money for arms, it intimidates its own members.

It's not easy for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to challenge the military-industrial complex, which drives U.S. policy, which in turn, drives NATO. He deserves credit, writes Douglas Roche.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

April 20, 2023

EDMONTON—Credit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is a politician, with telling the truth. A leaked Pentagon document, bearing the seal of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Trudeau told NATO officials privately that Canada will never reach the military spending target ...

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