Spending on national security
Carney promised to hire a thousand more Canada Border Services Agency officers to beef up border security, and to bring in another thousand RCMP officers to shore up law enforcement.
He promised to toughen up bail laws for anyone charged with stealing cars, home invasion, human trafficking or smuggling.
Carney also alluded to his promise to ramp up spending on the Canadian Armed Forces. The single largest investment in his platform is a $31 billion increase in defence spending.
The prime minister has promised that his government will meet Canada’s NATO defence spending benchmark — two per cent of annual GDP for defence, a level not reached in decades — by 2030. Most of Carney’s defence commitments don’t come due under the latter part of his term in office.