Addressing a call by U.S. senators to increase military spending, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed the previous Conservative government for lower military investments and said current spending plans are “extremely well-received” by the United States.
“First of all, it’s important to remember where Canada was,” Mr. Trudeau said during a press conference in Halifax on May 24, responding to questions about the bipartisan letter from U.S. senators. “In 2015 under the Harper Conservatives in which Pierre Poilievre was minister in that government, defence spending dropped for the first time to below 1 percent of [GDP].”
