NATO’s dangerous new trajectory of expensive targets

Mark Carney’s pledge to meet NATO’s new spending target risks defining Canada’s future by bombs and budgets rather than by peacebuilding and principle.

Prime Minister Mark Carney could have resisted NATO’s increasingly militarized path. Instead, his increased spending pledge entrenches Canada deeper within the orbit of U.S. defence interests, writes Erika Simpson.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERIKA SIMPSON

June 25, 2025

As newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney settles into office, Canada’s long-simmering debate over NATO defence spending has reignited—especially after

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