It was an honour to lead the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association delegation to Luxembourg to participate in the 2023 Spring Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly which included Senator Gwen Boniface, Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, Senator Rebecca Patterson, Rachel Blaney, MP, and Cheryl Gallant, MP. Read about our work here.
View my question to Luxembourgish Prime Minister Bettel and Luxembourgish Defence Minister Bausch regarding the Alliance’s 2% of Gross Domestic Product defence spending guideline at 1 hour and 44 minutes in the video above. As well as my question to NATO Deputy Secretary General Geoana about how to develop a collective narrative among NATO countries to engage with countries in the Global South, particularly within the context of the war in Ukraine, and asked a second question to the deputy secretary general about what actions NATO could take to “ensure arms control and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons at 2 hours and 50 minutes.