Vincent Rigby on the Challenges Ahead for the Canada-EU Defence Pact | Expert Group on Canada-US Relations

Published: 10 July 2025

June 2025 | Vincent Rigby, alongside other senior experts, co-authored a white paper analyzing the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership. While the agreement aims to reduce reliance on U.S....

Vincent Rigby on the Risks and Realities of Canada’s New EU Defence Pact | The Globe and Mail

Published: 10 July 2025

July 9, 2025 | Vincent Rigby, along with retired vice-admiral Mark Norman, former deputy trade minister Tim Sargent, former defence minister Perrin Beatty, and professor Fen Hampson, wrote a report...

Vincent Rigby on Strategic Autonomy Amidst G7 Uncertainty | The Globe and Mail

Published: 17 June 2025

June 14, 2025 | Vincent Rigby, quoted in The Globe and Mail, sees Carney’s foreign policy as a clear break from traditional diplomacy rooted in values. He argues that Canada is embracing a more...

Vincent Rigby on Meeting Canada’s NATO Defence Targets | National Post

Published: 12 June 2025

June 9, 2025 | Vincent Rigby was quoted in the National Post in response to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement that Canada will meet NATO’s 2% defence spending target this fiscal year,...

Michael Black on Canada’s Defence Spending Challenges and NATO’s Future Targets | Policy Magazine

Published: 12 June 2025

June 11, 2025 | MPP ’25 Michael Black examines in Policy Magazine Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to meet NATO’s 2% defence spending target by 2026 and the upcoming NATO Summit’s proposal to...

Vincent Rigby on Canada’s Accelerated Defence Spending | CDA Institute

Published: 12 June 2025

June 9, 2025 | In an interview for the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute’s Expert Series, Vincent Rigby reacts to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement that Canada will...

Vincent Rigby on Comparing Conservative and Liberal Defence Platforms

Published: 1 May 2025

April 23, 2025 | For the Conference of Defence Associations Institute's Expert Series, Vincent Rigby compares the two major party platforms on defence and security issues, highlighting three...

Expert: Federal Budget 2022

Published: 7 April 2022

The federal Liberals unveil their latest budget that aims to balance promises made in the 2021 election campaign, in the pact with the NDP, and recently to Canada's global defence allies. The 2022...

Spending defence budgets the wrong way risks major damage from terrorist attacks

Published: 20 January 2015

Governments that fail to account for analysis of terrorists' personal information in allocating their defence budgets risk increased damage from terrorist attacks, new research from the Desautels...

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