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>> Vassy: welcome to question period on this sunday, may 26, I'm vassy kapelos. Today, called out. >> To be able to assure those concernedsentors that canada will be ready and capable ally. >> Vassy: a bipartisan group of U.S. senators is publicly calling out canada for failing to have had a plan to meet nato's defence spending target. Why now and what does the white house think? We'll speak exclusively to the U.S. ambassador to nato, julianne smith, in moments, and I'll ask her. >>> Skyrocketing auto thefts. >> All too many people are acquainted with there issue. >> Vassy: the feds have just outlined a national plan to tackle spiking auto theft across the country. Will that plan work? We'll go one-on-one with public safety minister dominic leblanc. >>> Plus coming home. >> You're bringing home one of your own. >> It's great to have something like this. >> Vassy: the remains of an unknown soldier from newfoundland who fought in world war I are back home after being repatriated from france. Seamus o'regan will join us from there to reflect on the journey home and the sacrifices those soldiers made. >>> Let's start with the newest public call for canada to meet its defence spending commitments. This time the criticism is coming from a bipartisan group of notable U.S. senators that issued a public letter to prime minister justin trudeau. In the letter the senators say, quote, we are concerned and profoundly disappointed that canada's most recent projection indicated that it will not reach its 2% commitment this decade. And the senators go on to write canada will fail to meet its obligations to the alliance to the detriment of all nato allies and the freer world without need and meaningful action to increase defence spending. The federal government just released a defence policy review that does chart a path to reach 1.76% of gdp on defence spending by 2030 with no target date to hit nato's 2% goal. >> Canada is on an very strong, upward trajectory in defence spending. We know we have work to do. We acknowledged that from did I juan there's more we need to do. We clearly indicated it in our budget. The path to getting that done. >> Vassy: why is this call being made now and how significant is it? With me to talk about that is U.S. ambassador to nato julianne smith. Welcome back to the program. Thank you for making the time. >> Happy to do so. >> Vassy: do you agree with the sentiment expressed in there letter? >> By and large the position of the united states is pretty clear and by the united states, I mean the biden administration. We certainly salute all of the efforts that canada has undertaken here across the alliance, particularly in its support to ukraine. But I will say on the wills investment pledge, which was the moment when allies came together ten years ago to commit to spend 2% of their gdp on defence by 2024, we were hoping that if allies couldn't meet that target, they would have a plan in place to get to 2% within the flex few years -- next few years. We were pleased to see that canada is making a pledge to get to 1.7 betters by the end of the decade, but what we need is for the canadian government to issue some sort of plan to get to 2% in the years ahead. Every member of this alliance is either already at 2%, about two-thirds of the alliance are going to hit that target by the summit in july, or they have a plan to get to 2% in three to five years. And so we want a situation where we can announce at the summit that every member of the alliance has a plan to get there if they're not there already. >> Vassy: has it ever been conveyed to you behind the scenes that canada does not plan to ever do that or have there been specific attacks behind the scenes in conveying to you of the fact that it might happen? >> Certainly the canadian delegation here and the canadian government has indicated that they take the pledge very seriously. They signed on to it. I think they had, when they signed on to it, every intention obviously of eventually meeting the commitment. The question, though, again, across 9 9 alliance is when will we see an actual plan to reach that 2% target and have clarity on how canada is going to get there. I have not had any instance where any canadian official has told me they will not get there, but I don't have any sign that there is a plan in place to get to that 2% mark. >> Vassy: canada plotted this chart now, you know, of definitely an increase in defence spending historically speaking in this country at 1.7. why does the extra point 3 matter so much to nato? >> Well, I'll tell you, the alliance last year at its summit in lithuania rolled out a new set of regional plans, and what

those plans mean is that every ally now has clarity on what they need to have in hand and what level of readiness their forces need to have to ensure that we can defend nato territory against russian aggression, against any kind of aggression. And even some hybrid threats that exist out there, things like cyberattacks, for example. So in order to realize those regional plans and execute them as they are designed, we need -- we have calculated that we need every member of the alliance to do its fair share. We need every ally to spend the 2% of their own gdp and invest in their own national defence because those investments pay dividends for the alliance in enhancing our deterrence in defence. And I do want to acknowledge that canada has made significant increases over the last couple of years, and we are deeply appreciative of those increases, particularly because they are challenging in the current political climate that we all find ourselves in. There are competing priorities, no doubt. But given the state of the global security environment, the challenges and the very real threat that the alliance faces today, the threat stemming from russia and again other corners around the world, it is imperative that every member meet the 2% pledge, and I would note that last year at the summit we said that 2% should be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. >> Vassy: you made sop some references to the threat russia poses and what's happening in the ukraine. I think the response from the federal government would be along the lines much on a per capita basis canada is one of the largest contributors to aid writ large for ukraine, that we are leading the nato mission in latvia, and that our presence there is set to increase substantially. That canada is very aware of the threat that you describe and has offered in their view, I think, a disproportionate number and amount of aid in order to address that threat. Is that argument not [indiscernible] it? >> Look, canada has provided critical assistance, humanitarian, economic, security assistance to our friends in ukraine, and like I said at the very top we do salute those efforts. But every member of the alliance is providing critical assistance to ukraine. It's a collective effort. And we appreciate canada's leadership and we hope we will continue to see it and we hope all allies will continue their very important assistance to ukraine. In terms of the leadership role that canada is playing in latvia, that is also widely applauded across the alliance. We want to ensure, though, that that multinational battalion that canada has committed to leading is scalable to a brigade. And in order to ensure that that battalion is scalable to a brigade, every country that's contributing to that battalion does need to invest in its armed forces to make sure that they have the necessary capabilities and that those forces are planted at the -- maintained at the right level of readiness. >> Vassy: this letter reference that had meeting coming up between nato allies in washington, dc, at the beginning of the summer, and I wanted to ask -- I think you've outlined what the geopolitical stakes are if nato members including canada do not set a path out to 2% r there specific consequences for canada if our government does not come to the table at that meeting with a path to 2%? >> Well, ultimately it affects the way in which we're messaging burden sharing across the alliance. It would be wonderful to come to the summit in july and have all 32 heads of state announce that we now have a situation where 20 or say 22 allies have met the 2% pledge and that every member of the alliance has a plan to get to 2% in the next few years. That would be the best message to any sort of potential aggressor or certainly to moscow to be able to relay that message. But would there be any sort of penalty? Absolutely not. But I think the fundamental goal here is for all 32 nations to lock arms and stand together on this pledge that we made ten years ago. We want canada to be part of that message, we want to have canada there locking arms with us, making that commitment to the 2%. >> Vassy: I'll leave it on that note. Appreciate your time. Thank you. U.S. ambassador to nato julianne smith.

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