The Pentagon’s decision to pull out of a joint military board with Canada that dates to World War II has prompted angry responses from Ottawa, as tensions continue to simmer between the U.S. and its northern neighbor.
Elbridge Colby, an undersecretary of defense, announced earlier this week that “Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments” and so the U.S. was “pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”
