This is the best summary I could come up with:

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is urging the federal government to speed up its plan to reach NATO’s spending benchmark in order to save the Canada-U.S. trade relationship ahead of potentially shifting sands south of the border.

After years of criticism from allies — most notably the United States — the Liberal government announced last week that it hopes to meet NATO’s military investment commitment of two per cent of alliance members’ gross domestic product by 2032.

Speaking on the last day of the premiers’ annual summer meeting, Kinew said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should reach two per cent spending in four years.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, chair of this year’s meetings, said Tuesday the provinces are working to maintain that relationship, no matter who wins, given the U.S. buys about three-quarters of Canada’s exports.

In May, a group of U.S. senators from both major parties sent a letter to Trudeau urging the Liberal government to boost defence spending to the NATO target.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said he won’t commit to meeting the two per cent NATO defence spending target if he becomes prime minister.

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This sort of comment from a premier under mines the little leverage Canada has in the situation.