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crash that killed 16 players and staple staff with the humboldt broncos team and injured 13 others. Sidhu was given an eight year prison sentence but was granted parole in 2022. His lawyer says deportation to india is inevitable, but he will likely request sidhu stay in canada on humanitarian grounds. A decision on that matter could take years. [ ] [ ] >> In washington, a bipartisan group of senators is calling on canada to do more to meet its commitments on defence spending. Nearly a quarter of the U.S. senate signed a shopperly worded letter and sent it to ottawa yesterday saying canada needs to boost spending during one of the most dangerous moments in nato's history. Let's go to ottawa, and janyce mcgregor with more on what is in the letter, janyce, good morning. >> Good morning, heather, indeed. This is a letter that speaks about nato being in quote one of the most severe threat landscapes in its history. And it talks about how notwithstanding the important contributions that canada has made, it cites for example its leadership of the battle group in latvia, for example. In the eyes of these american senators, it is still falling short, especially at a time when nato is under pressure to ramp up even more, the assistance it's providing to ukraine, in its fight with russia, for example. The focus of this letter is squarely on canada's failure to meet its obligations on defence spending. It talks about how even by 2019, canada will still, according to its own budget estimates, be just over 1.7 per cent of its gross domestic products spent on defence, that's five years after it was supposed to hit the 2% benchmark, described as a floor, not a ceiling. The senator's right. They are concerned and profoundly disappointed that canada's most recent projection isn't going to reach that 2% commitment. They talk also about norad and how it's in dire need of modernization and they can't do that without canada's cooperation and investments in air defence systems and then it says canada is going to fail to meet its obligations to the detriment of all nato allies in the free world, without immediate and meaningful action to increase defence spending. Let's talk about the signatories to this letter. 23 of them. I will note ten of them are up for re-election, for those tracking that. It include as number that sit on the senate's defence committee. It also has an interesting kind of range of voices here, not the chair of the defence committee, I will point out, but some prominent names and faces, republicans like ted cruise, mitt romney, also prominent democrats like tim kaine and joe mansion. Defence minister bill blair was in washington just last week, talking about canada's defence spending plans with his counterpart lloyd austin, taking meetings were other senior officials. On parliament hill yesterday, he was continuing to give reassurances that canada indeed was stepping up. >> We know that canada needs to invest in other cape tablets are not yet included in this year's budget but are inevitably part of the investments we're going to have to make. But it's important those adjustments may well. Canada is in a very strong upward trajectorytry in defence spending. We know we've got work to do, we've acknowledged that from day one that there's more that we need to do. We've clearly indicated in our budget, the path to getting that done. >> So, janyce, as we listen to the minister who might have heard something directly of this nature, to him directly in washington when he visited, why would the senators be sending this out publicly now? >> Well, it makes you wonder if they didn't like what they heard from blair. I will point out that the next nato summit is going to be hosted by the americans in washington in july. It often falls to the host to set the tone, the key themes, in this case perhaps nagging some of the laggards among nato's membership when it comes to spending and it is also appear election year. A presidential election year in washington, threats to hold canada accountable for its failure to spend as much as the americans think we should do, kind of ebb and flow. But of course donald trump on the stump has been only too happy to threaten to not protect nato allies that failed to carry their weight. The current administration, though, president joe biden ambassador in ottawa, david cohen, when he talks about this issue for example last month he said there's a whole range of factor that is they use to consider canada's contribution, not just the percentage figure but the fact that it is increasing over time encourages them. And I note germany's defence minister, of course the germans really ramping up in their country on defence spending declined to, you know, when reporters were trying to get him to criticize canada's spending. So the views among the alliance not as heer she necessarily as the tone of this letter. >> Thank you, janyce, appreciate it. >> You're welcome. >> Janyce mcgregor is in

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