The 2% of funding issue is part of a package of commitments that leaders entered into in 2014 to work towards spending 2% of GDP on defence and commitments relating to capacity as well and to actually doing the necessary in terms of military heavy lifting. Canada continues to make a very substantial contribution in terms of actual heavy lifting and putting our troops where they need to be. Under the “Strong, Secure, Engaged” defence policy, we've been increasing our defence expenditure by 70% over a 10-year period, which has resulted in Canada being amongst the allies with the largest actual increase in defence expenditure. At the moment, I think about half of the allies have a plan to reach 2%. We have a commitment to increase the defence expenditure, but not over the 2% line, by 2024.
