Peter Menzies: When It Comes to Military Capability, Canada Is but a Shadow of Its Former Self

Two Royal Canadian Air Force Mk. 4B CF-100s participate in training at the Air Weapons Unit in Sardinia, Italy, in 1962. Front-line CF-100s were used by the RCAF in Europe from 1956 to 1962. Department of National Defence/Public Domain

Commentary

Late last month, NATO and the Canadian government declared that the latter had fulfilled its commitment to spend 2 percent of its gross domestic product on defence, ending decades of being one of the alliance’s chronic underperformers.