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Canada officially hits NATO 2% GDP target
Canada spent just over $63 billion on defence in 2025, reaching NATO's 2% GDP target years ahead of schedule amid U.S. pressure and a major military investment surge.
- On Thursday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte published his annual report, confirming that European allies and Canada increased defence spending throughout 2025.
- Rutte confirmed that all allies met or exceeded the 2% target first set in 2014, with the alliance spending 2.77% of GDP on defence in 2025.
- Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia already exceeded the new 3.5% core defence target, while Spain, Canada, and Belgium remained at 2% last year.
- President Donald Trump recently assailed allies over their lack of support for the war against Iran, labeling them "cowards" and calling NATO a "PAPER TIGER" without the United States.
- At the next NATO Summit in Ankara, allies must demonstrate a clear path toward the 5% objective for defence and related investments by 2035, Rutte said.
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Canada Meets NATO’s 2 Percent GDP Defence Spending Benchmark
Canada has hit NATO’s defence spending target of 2 percent of GDP, after a year marked by the biggest jump in military expenditures “in generations,” Prime Minister Mark Carney says. “For the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we’ll be spending that 2 percent of GDP on defence,” Carney said at a press conference in Halifax on March 26, noting Canada has spent more than $60 billion on defence and security to meet the target. He said th…
·New York, United States
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According to the Alliance, military spending in the 32 member countries reached 574 billion in 2025, a 20 per cent jump.
·Montreal, Canada
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