Leading up to the recent NATO summit, our allies made it clear that they wanted Canada to stand up and honour the commitment that our country had made to the alliance.

A decade ago, Canada, along with all other NATO members, pledged to spend the equivalent of two per cent of their gross domestic product on defence. According to the NATO secretary general’s report from last year, Canada is not meeting this commitment. We are, in fact, the only country that is neither meeting its pledge nor presenting a credible plan to do so.