Darren Fisher at the National Defence Committee

On November 8th, 2017. See this statement in context.

November 8th, 2017 / 4:25 p.m.

Liberal

Darren Fisher Liberal Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS

I'll go very quickly to Mr. Brodeur.

You believe that Canada needs to assert its position in the alliance more or else we run the risk of NATO becoming more Eurocentric.

We've heard testimony—and I might be paraphrasing and I might not even be totally correct—that if the U.S. ranks first in NATO contributions, Canada ranks sixth out of 29, which is pretty significant. Touching on what Mr. Mark Gerretsen said about punching above our weight class, can you talk a bit about how you feel we need to assert our position in the NATO alliance?

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