Canada needs a clear path to a robust defence

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Open this photo in gallery: A soldier climbs onto a Canadian military vehicle during a visit to Adazi, Latvia by Canada's Minister of Defence on Feb. 3, 2022.GINTS IVUSKANS/Getty Images Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has at least one thing right about Canada’s continuing failure to meet its defence-spending commitments as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: It undermines Canadian sovereignty by inviting the United States to step into the resulting vacuum. “That puts America in charge of Canada’s future. I don’t want that,” Mr. Poilievre told reporters in Montreal last week, as he promised that a Conservative government...