By Yves Engler, Talking Foreign Policy, June 7, 2025
As forest fires displace tens of thousands of Canadians, Mark Carney announced a massive increase in military spending Monday to overcome “threats which felt far away and remote [that] are now immediate and acute”. The Prime Minister wasn’t referring to those driven from their homes by fires, but Russia and China. Balsillie School of International Affairs PHD candidate Tamara Lorincz joined me to discuss Carney’s boost to war spending, an Auditor General report on the cost of F-35s and NATO pushing to increase military spending even further.
Posted June 18, 2025