The Canadian Army does not have enough vehicles to support both the brigade in Latvia and a similar-sized training exercise in Canada, a House of Commons committee was told on Thursday.

Maj.-Gen. Robert Ritchie, the director of the strategic joint staff (the military's nerve centre), told the defence committee that over 400 vehicles of all types have been deployed for the NATO deterrence mission in the Baltic nation.

"We do not have a mirror complement of that equipment in Canada, nor is it required," Ritchie testified, making reference to a radical shift in combined arms training implemented last year.

"The vehicles that the individuals are using for that [Latvia] deployment are the ones that they need to conduct the pre-deployment training on so that they understand the systems an

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