Canadian PM Warns History Has Returned with Vengeance, Cites Authoritarian Threats

What was said

"The assumptions that had shaped decades of Canadian defense and foreign policy have been upended. Put another way, history is back with a vengeance. We face numerous and growing threats from incursions in our Arctic to attacks in our cyberspace. More menacingly, authoritarian regimes are increasingly assertive."

Speaking at a naval shipyard on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara, Prime Minister Carney delivered a stark warning that the post-Cold War peace dividend era has ended. He argued that Canada must prepare for a world where authoritarianism is resurgent and sovereignty cannot be taken for granted, explicitly referencing threats from authoritarian regimes both globally and implicitly across Canada's southern border. Carney pledged to achieve 4% of GDP in defense spending by decade's end, ahead of NATO's 2035 timeline.