What I've understood in my exchanges with NATO representatives was that they were relieved that Canada finally had a plan to reach the threshold of 2% of its GDP for defence, but that 2032 seemed to have been pulled out of a hat without any concrete plan to achieve it.
So Canada's credibility is very weak, because we made that commitment more than 10 years ago and it still hasn't been met. Nor will it be in the short term. I think our credibility is weakened because what we say is considered meaningless if we don't follow through. The plan announced last April is a 20-year plan that is not binding on the current government, but on a number of future governments.