Polish president in Vancouver urges NATO members to adopt war footing

Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, is expected to meet this weekend with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Vancouver Island, and there appears to be just one thing on the Polish president’s mind: war.

At a speech Friday in Vancouver before a small audience of about 100 diplomats, business leaders and global affairs experts, Duda talked about the need for fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members to prepare for war, starting by increasing their defence spending to two to three per cent of GDP, continuing to supply Ukraine with weapons, and ramping up the West’s military industrial capacity.

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