Canada plans to hit NATO spending target early and reduce US defense reliance, Carney says
TORONTO — Canada will meet NATO's military spending guideline by early next year and diversify defense spending away from the United States, which he says no longer plays a predominant role on the world stage, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday.
Carney said Canada will achieve NATO's spending target of 2% of gross domestic product five years earlier than it had previously planned.
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He argued that local law enforcement had been capable of handling the situation and could have requested support from state partners had it been necessary. Mr. Bonta also said that the situation had been calming before Mr. Trump's move incited new unrest. 'Trump and Hegseth jumped from 0 to 60,' Mr. Bonta said, referring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 'Bypassing law enforcement expertise and evaluation, they threw caution to the wind and sidelined strategy in an unnecessary and inflammatory escalation that only further spurred unrest.' The U.S. Justice Department press office declined to comment. Mr. Newsom's office foreshadowed the litigation in a letter to Mr. Hegseth on Sunday. 'In dynamic and fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, state and local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources to safeguard life and property,' Mr. Newsom's legal affairs secretary, David Sapp, wrote in the letter. 'Indeed the decision to deploy the National Guard, without appropriate training or orders, risks seriously escalating the situation.' Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he was imposing federal control over at least 2,000 National Guard troops for at least 60 days in order to quell the protests, and directed Mr. Hegseth to determine which ones to use. The order did not specify that the troops needed to come from California, but so far the California National Guard has been used, according to the U.S. Northern Command. Mr. Trump's order suggested that protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and detention facilities were interfering with federal functions, and that they constituted a rebellion against the federal government's authority and its ability to enforce federal law. That is the standard for invoking the Insurrection Act to use the military for domestic policing. But the order did not invoke the Insurrection Act. Instead, it cited only a statute that allowed the president, under certain circumstances, to federalize a state's National Guard. It also appeared to gesture toward a claim of inherent presidential power to use troops to protect federal functions. Mr. Bonta acknowledged that isolated pockets of trouble have surfaced amid protests that remained peaceful, and he suggested that it was Mr. Trump's provocation that caused them to deteriorate into violence. Mr. Bonta also said his office had studied the 1807 Insurrection Act and was prepared to respond if Mr. Trump later tried invoking it as an alternate legal authority to deploy the U.S. military to address the protests. But Mr. Bonta reiterated that he was not aware of any conditions suggesting that the protests in Los Angeles necessitated federal troops, and that the local authorities were 'completely prepared' to address any developments. Mr. Trump's order raises many legal complexities, including whether a rebellion against federal authority is indeed taking place, and whether a court could reject a president's claim that the situation rises to the level that would make it lawful to send in troops. But there is also a basic procedural issue: whether it was lawful for Mr. Hegseth to cut Mr. Newsom out of the administration's decision-making process. Mr. Trump's order instructed Mr. Hegseth to consult with state governors about calling up National Guard units, and the call-up statute Mr. Trump cited said that orders for National Guard call-ups 'shall be issued through the governors of the states.' But Mr. Sapp's letter complained that Mr. Hegseth had sent a directive to the general in charge of California's National Guard informing him that the federal government was taking control of 2,000 of its troops without consulting Mr. Newsom or relaying the order through the governor. In the letter to Mr. Hegseth on Sunday, Mr. Sapp focused on that procedural problem and added that local law enforcement authorities in Los Angeles had the matter in hand. He also invoked the principle of states' rights. 'There is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles, and to do so in this unlawful manner and for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation, while simultaneously depriving the state from deploying these personnel and resources where they are truly required,' Mr. Sapp's letter said. Mr. Trump's move was the first time in about 60 years that a president had sent troops under federal control into a state to quell unrest without a request from the state's governor. That last happened during the civil rights movement, when state governors were resisting court orders to desegregate public schools. 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Gavin Newsom sued Trump and Hegseth to rescind the deployment because he had not requested it, as he said the law requires, Trump escalated the situation by adding 700 Marines, a full battalion, to the mix. It is unclear what, precisely, they can accomplish. Federal law prohibits them from arresting people unless Trump were to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act. While he has referred to the protesters as 'insurrectionists' multiple times, he has not used his authority to declare the riot an 'insurrection' against the United States, which would suggest that the participants are trying to overthrow the national government. 'Trump is just abusing his power,' Hirono said Monday. 'At first, it's the National Guard, without reference to the governor, and now that the Marines, what is he trying to prove that he is king. ... It's because he thinks that the rule of law doesn't apply to him, and I think it's a very dangerous precedent for him to be doing all of these things. So it's just, who's to stop him?' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell blamed Newsom — whom Trump regularly calls 'Newscum' in his remarks and social media posts — for the violence. 'Under Gov. Gavin Newsom's feckless leadership, California's state and local officials have actively subverted federal immigration laws, enabled so-called sanctuary cities, and refused to protect federal law enforcement officers,' Parnell told HuffPost. 'Because of this leadership failure, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have stepped up to protect our communities from violent mobs. We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers, even if Gavin Newsom will not.' 'Donald Trump has manufactured a crisis and is inflaming conditions,' Newsom said in a social media post on Sunday, later adding in a separate post, 'Local law enforcement didn't need help ... Trump sent troops anyway — to manufacture chaos and violence.' Trump in 2020 was angry about protests around the country sparked by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, and particularly those taking place in Washington, D.C., near the White House. According to Esper, Trump wanted the National Guard troops who had been deployed to open fire on the protesters: 'He says, 'Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.' And he's suggesting that that's what we should do, that we should bring in the troops and shoot the protesters,' Esper told CBS News in 2022. On June 1 of that year, both Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley were present with Trump when he ordered Lafayette Square adjacent to the White House cleared so he could have his photo taken holding a Bible in front of a church there. Both Esper and Milley publicly apologized for their presence in the days after and stated that the military had no role in that autumn's election. The remarks incensed Trump and eventually led to Esper's firing after Trump's election loss in November. No such pushback is likely to happen with Hegseth, a former Fox News weekend host, now in charge of the military. 'Secretary Hegseth stands firmly with President Trump and will work with our interagency partners to restore order,' Parnell said. Igor Bobic contributed reporting.
