McQuaig: Carney’s military spending binge will leave Canadians worse off and divided

October 16, 2025

Linda McQuaig: The Carney government clearly did not do a careful assessment of Canada’s defence needs before embracing Trump’s five per cent figure. Rather, it was a sudden move, apparently designed to please Trump -— even though there’s no reason to believe it will make the slightest difference in Trump’s highly capricious decisions about tariffs or anything else…