Defence committee told NATO troop targets kept from Parliament as army plans one division
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Defence committee told NATO troop targets kept from Parliament as army plans one division ANALYSIS 26 OCTOBER 2026 Analyst Justin Massey told MPs Canada's NATO share could reach 50,000 troops without the U.S., while no one has costed operating independently.
Justin Massey of the Strategic Analysis Network and John Walsh of the University of Guelph were the opening witnesses as the committee began its study of Inflection Point 2025, the Canadian Army’s modernization document.
“You put Canada’s NATO share between 34,000 and 50,000, up to 50,000 without the U.S., and yet the plan that we’re looking into is a division of only 15,000,” he said.
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Defence committee told NATO troop targets kept from Parliament as army plans one division
ANALYSIS
26 OCTOBER 2026
Analyst Justin Massey told MPs Canada's NATO share could reach 50,000 troops without the U.S., while no one has costed operating independently.
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NATO’s capability targets for Canada are handed to the government but not shown to Parliament, a defence analyst told the House of Commons national defence committee Thursday, and no one has studied what it would cost Canada to fight in Europe without American support.…
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