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2025 Election: Comparing Conservative and Liberal Defence Platforms
What are Canada’s major political parties promising when it comes to defence, sovereignty, and foreign policy—and where do key questions and challenges remain?
In today’s Expert Series episode, Vincent Rigby compares the two major party platforms on defence and security issues. Together, we highlight three crucial areas from both aspects of the Liberal and Conservative platforms: the commitment to 2% defence spending, sovereignty, and Canada’s foreign policy.
The first of these issues is the “black and white” commitment to NATO 2%. While both parties have committed to meeting NATO 2% by 2030…
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