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Prime minister Mark Carney goes to Europe on weekends to attend the summits NATO And Canadian-EU relations.
The Prime Minister’s office has confirmed Carney’s travel plans today, after finishing the G7 leaders’ summit in Alberta.
Carney will go to Brussels on Sunday to meet European leaders.
The Prime Minister’s office said the leaders would endeavor to “deepen Canadian-EU relations in all sectors”, including trade and defense.
Carney will then go to The Hague in the Netherlands for the NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Prime Minister’s office said Carney will join allies at the top to “respond to evolutionary threats in a more dangerous and divided world”.
NATO’s meeting will probably focus on defense expenses. NATO allies are expected to adopt a plan aimed at browsing the objective of defense spending for members of five percent of national GDP – a level that Canada has not reached since the 1950s.
Carney announced last week that Canada will quickly increase its calendar of military spending to reach the current NATO objective by 2% of national GDP by adding $ 9 billion to the tax framework this year.
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Carney warned that Canada depends too much on the United States that is increasingly unreliable for its defense and spends too much on its reset budget in the south of the border.
NATO GDP forecasts are saving Canada at 3.1 dollars of dollars for the year, which represents its two% NATO commitment worth around 62.5 billion dollars, according to senior government officials.
The federal government is currently paying approximately 1.45% of real GDP in defense and has spent nothing almost two percent since 1990 – despite having promised its greatest allies for years.
At a press conference on Tuesday, the G7 summit, Carney said that allies’ attention was spent next week from the fight against economic security for the resolution of world defense and security issues during NATO and Canada-EU.
“We recognize that our leadership will be defined not only by the strength of our values but also the values of our strength,” he told journalists.
– with Kyle Duggan and Nick Murray files
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