5% defence spending target ‘long overdue,’ says Okanagan MP

June 28, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to spending 5 per cent of its GDP on defence by 2035. Scott Anderson approves of the idea so long as it’s not an ‘accounting sleight of hand’

Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to spending five per cent of its GDP on defence by 2035, a plan that Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee MP Scott Anderson says is “long overdue,” though he hopes the target won’t be met by “artificially” boosting defence expenditures.…

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