Canada is making significant strides towards meeting NATO's military spending guideline by the end of the decade, according to the Defense Minister. The country is focusing on boosting investment in the Arctic region near its shared border with Russia, which is experiencing rapid warming due to climate change.
Following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014, NATO allies committed to halting budget cuts and working towards spending 2% of their gross domestic product on defense within a decade. At that time, Canada was only spending around 1% of its GDP on defense.
