Diplomacy now plays second fiddle to Canada’s voracious military

Mark Carney, who revealed himself as a man of conscience on his way to the Prime Minister’s Office, now needs to push back against the militarists demanding never-ending increases in defence spending and start pushing the UN's agenda for peace.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is on the wrong side of history when he dwells on more military spending in the name of security, writes Douglas Roche. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

April 2, 2026

EDMONTON—It is a regrettable juxtaposition that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s triumphal announcement that Canada is now spending two per cent of its GDP on defence came in the same week that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned, “The world is starin...

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