Canadian support for defence spending reaches a 30-year high: Poll

“Trump is the key driver(of this notion) and no, those numbers would not look anything like that if Biden was still president or Kamala Harris had been elected in 2024,” said Graves, in an interview with National Post. “Most people thought it was going to be bad but didn’t think he was going to be talking about annexing us. So, that is a powerful visceral driver of this rise in support for defence spending.”