On the 2 per cent (of GDP for NATO defence), I think that number is just pulled out of thin air and doesn’t mean anything for the United States, Canada, or NATO. We need to figure out what the threat requires, what stability requires, and then get a commitment of all nations, whether that’s 2 per cent, 5 per cent, 2.5 per cent, 1.5 per cent. I don’t know where the number is, but just arbitrarily putting percentages out as a goal, in a military planner’s mind, is not really the way to do business.
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