OTTAWA-
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will be in Cold Lake, Alberta today to wrap up a visit focused on northern defences.
Yesterday they attended Operation Nanook, the country’s largest military training operation in the Arctic, and visited a radar station in Nunavut.
Experts noted that this is part of Canada’s renewed focus on Arctic security in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent NATO expansion.
With Finland and Sweden joining, Russia will be the only Arctic nation outside the alliance.
Stoltenberg and Trudeau will hold a bilateral meeting after visiting the Royal Canadian Air Force base in Cold Lake.
The NATO chief is likely to raise the issue of defense spending, given that Canada is among the countries that have never managed to meet the alliance’s goal of spending 2% of their GDP on the military .
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on August 26, 2022