Budget raises questions about defence spending targets after 2030

BNN Bloomberg · The Canadian Press · 2026-11-05 22:00 UTC

The Liberal government’s new budget leaves unanswered a major accounting question about Ottawa’s plans to meet its 2035 NATO defence spending commitments.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s new budget leaves unanswered a major accounting question about Ottawa’s plans to meet its 2035 NATO defence spending commitments.

The budget charts a path to meet alliance defence spending targets from now through to 2030 -- but the math stops there.

Reaching the goal of spending five per cent of national GDP on defence by 2035 would heap mounds of new spending pressure on future budgets.

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