The Globe and Mail: The subject is expected to come up during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Britain this week, which will include Wednesday meetings with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and a stop in Liverpool where the pair will watch an Everton Football Club match. Both men are fans of the club.
…Britain’s interest in joining the Canadian-led defence bank comes as it works on a separate initiative, the Multilateral Defence Mechanism. This is a joint financing scheme being set up by Britain, the Netherlands, Finland and Poland to pool money for buying weapons together, and speed up defence spending among allied countries…