About two in three Canadians say they would prefer increasing defence spending to reach the 2 percent target committed by member countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a new poll finds.
Conducted by Nanos Research, the poll found that 64 percent of Canadians support spending 2 percent of their country’s gross domestic product (GDP) on defence, instead of maintaining the current 1.4 percent (21 percent) or spending less than 1.4 percent (8 percent), as part of its commitment as a NATO ally.
In 2006, defence ministers of member countries had agreed to commit a minimum of 2 percent of their GDP to defence spending to “continue to ensure the Alliance’s military readiness.”…