Prime Minister Mark Carney says the world faces "turning points" as he vowed Canada will benefit from increasing defence spending to the new NATO target of five per cent of GDP by 2035. At the same time,

Mere weeks after announcing that Canada would finally meet its decade-old commitment to spend the equivalent of two per cent of GDP on defence, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his NATO colleagues pulled another arbitrary number out of a hat and agreed to increase spending to five per cent by 2035.