Canada Violates NATO Agreement
By Danny Lam
February 17, 2017
Canadians have long enjoyed the security and comfort of belonging to NATO: a robust military alliance that won the cold war. Today, Canada, a founding member of NATO, is in default of our treaty obligations under Article 3 of the NATO treaty.
Article 3 of the NATO treaty states:
“In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.”
Failure to meet its obligations under Article 3 calls into question any (or all) obligations that NATO members have to Canada under the "collective defence" principle of Article 5. This issue is coming to a head with the emergence of North Korea as a belligerent, unstable, and nuclear-armed regime.
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/02/17/canada_violates_nato_agreement_110822.html
