The United States has decided to suspend the activities of the US-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Council, said US Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Elbridge Colby, APA reports.
"Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments," he wrote in X. As a result, according to Colby, "the U.S. Department of Defense is suspending the work of the Permanent Joint Defense Council <...>."Washington wants to "determine how this forum benefits the common defense of North America," the deputy defense secretary noted. "We can no longer allow the gap between rhetoric and reality to persist," Colby emphasized.
