Canada downplays cost of meeting NATO spending mark as $60-billion projection will need to rise

In 2025, the figures NATO uses to calculate members' GDP will no longer be based on the 2015 numbers it uses now, but would instead use 2020 as the base year, leaving Canada about $3.5-billion short of its 2032 target.

Defence Minister Bill Blair says that it is possible that Canada's GDP will rise, which would force Canada to spend more on defence for it to reach the two per cent mark it promised NATO it would hit. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada downplays cost of meeting NATO spending mark as $60-billion projection will need to rise

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In 2025, the figures NATO uses to calculate members' GDP will no longer be based on the 2015 numbers it uses now, but would instead use 2020 as the base year, leaving Canada about $3.5-billion short of its 2032 target.

Canada downplays cost of meeting NATO spending mark as $60-billion projection will need to rise

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

In 2025, the figures NATO uses to calculate members' GDP will no longer be based on the 2015 numbers it uses now, but would instead use 2020 as the base year, leaving Canada about $3.5-billion short of its 2032 target.

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