OTTAWA — It’s a race to two per cent.
A day after Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney pledged he would hit Canada’s long-delayed defence spending target by 2030, two other leadership rivals declared they would achieve that threshold even faster.
In a statement Thursday, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled her own plan to boost Canada’s defence spending to the equivalent of two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2027.
