Poilievre calls Trudeau a joke on world stage, wont commit to NATO timeline – National [Video]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Friday said he was “embarrassed” to watch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at this week’s NATO leaders’ summit, where Trudeau was dogged by calls to commit to reaching the alliance’s target on defence spending.

But Poilievre didn’t say if he will also commit to Trudeau’s pledge that Canada will reach the target of spending at least two per cent of GDP on defence in eight years.

“It’s clear now that Justin Trudeau is seen as an absolute joke on the world stage,” he told reporters at a press conference in Montreal.

“I was embarrassed to see our prime minister treated like a human piñata by the rest of the NATO countries. They look upon him with total and complete ridicule. Canadians are tired of being embarrassed by a prime minister who prances around and preens, lectures the world, without doing his part.”

Trudeau travelled to Washington for the …