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- Minister's office declined to provide data to back Prime Minister Mark Carney's 4% GDP defence spending claim.
- Parliamentary Budget Officer said the 4% target would cost $163 billion annually, adding $34.9 billion each year to defence spending.
- Former associate deputy finance minister Don Drummond called the budget data gap the worst in his 49-year economics career.
- U.S. defence officials and Canadian military experts criticized the government's lack of clarity on defence spending.
