Blair ‘confident’ Canada will meet NATO targets with push for more spending

Defence Minister Bill Blair says that he is pushing for more military spending to meet Canada’s NATO commitments, but he still needs to do more work on the “business case” to secure the extra funding.

“One of the great challenges of being a defence minister is securing funding, and the second one is actually spending it,” Blair said during a discussion at Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Atlantic Council.

“I still have some work to do to articulate the…