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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
On the NATO side its only if an attack hits French Soil and they request help with their defense. The NATO offensive side of things, you can ask for assistance and NATO will decide if they're going to run it as a NATO lead operation.
So there's no obligation from Canada unless NATO makes the request for Canadian help, which I doubt is going to happen.
When Trudeau called Obama and probably the NATO general command and informed them of his decision to pull out, they probably all thought the same thing, that Canada is going to go back to being an unreliable NATO ally under this leadership (This isn't a shot at Trudeau, but an indictment about how NATO is going to react)
Basically Canada isn't going to have a seat at the table for the discussions around France's and possibly NATO reaction to this terrorist event.
Canada over the most recent years was given a bit of a slip about their Military spending not meeting NATO requirements because they were pretty robust in terms of working with NATO and supplying men and equipment when needed. But spending 1.1% of the GDP on defense and pulling out of what is considered a pretty significant NATO mission isn't going to fly.
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Thanks I was hoping you'd be the one to address this. I would agree that NATO would see us as an unreliable ally. I'm not sure what exactly the "ground troop training" would involve but it sounds frivolous and something that they're throwing in just to say they're doing something.
I don't know what the answer is but it's pretty disingenious for Trudeau to say one thing and do another.