PM Carney pledges to hit NATO’s defence spending target this year

Prime Minister Mark Carney pledges Canada will hit NATO’s defence spending target of two per cent of G-D-P for the first time since 1990.  Carney says Canada will speed things up by adding nine-billion dollars in spending to hit the goal this year.  The prime minister says Canada depends too much on an increasingly unreliable United States for its defence.  He says his government will look to partner more with European allies while building up Canada’s domestic industrial base.