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Carney making defence announcement in Toronto

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office says he will be in Toronto today to make an announcement related to “defence and security priorities.”

The announcement is slated for 10 a.m., after which he is set to tour a local military facility before holding a news conference at 1 p.m.

Defence ministers from NATO countries met in Brussels last week to discuss raising the member spending target on defence to as much as five per cent of GDP.

Canada has never met NATO’s existing spending target of two per cent since it was established in 2006, and the topic will loom large when NATO leaders meet later this month in the Netherlands.

Carney promised during the recen

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