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Canada's defence finance ties – DSRB expansion

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Following the EU Council’s approval of Canada’s accession to the SAFE programme, Canada helped launch the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) at the NATO summit in Ankara on 8 July 2024. The bank, headquartered in Canada with a European hub in Luxembourg, aims to mobilise up to £100 billion of low‑cost credit for defence, security and resilience projects targeting governments and smaller defence firms lacking private‑sector financing. Turkey declined to join at that stage, while the United Kingdom, Germany and France continue to operate separate procurement mechanisms. The DSRB is intended to complement NATO’s broader re‑armament push, support Ukraine’s war economy and help allies reach the 5 % of GDP defence‑spending target by 2035. In July 2026 NATO leaders revisited the DSRB as a financing tool for long‑term re‑armament, and the United Kingdom announced a review of potential membership to access capital for its goal of a 3.5 % defence budget by 2035. On 28 July 2026 a group of nine NATO members – Albania, Belgium, Canada, Greece, Luxembourg, Latvia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine – announced plans to formalise the DSRB, with Luxembourg lobbying for the bank’s headquarters. The same day Canada pledged to raise its overall defence spending to 5 % of GDP by 2035, up from just over 2 % in 2026. The increase will be split between a 3.5 % core defence component (including F‑35 fighters, Arctic patrol vessels and personnel readiness) and a 1.5 % allocation for defence‑adjacent sectors such as aerospace manufacturing, cybersecurity, AI firms and critical‑mineral supply chains. ~~Canadian natural resources like titanium, niobium and graphite are being promoted as strategic inputs for advanced military alloys.~~ Canada met the NATO 2 % defence‑spending benchmark in March 2026 and, after the Hague summit, committed to the Alliance‑wide 5 % target, representing roughly US$139 billion of additional defence outlays.

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