Have the senior leaders of the Canadian military lost all connection to reality?

Their unpublicized plan to increase Canada’s military reserves to 400,000 people, as reported by the Citizen’s David Pugliese, is wildly out of synch with their own organization’s recruitment capabilities, the attraction of serving in the armed forces, and the country’s needs.

The Canadian military has struggled with recruitment for years and can’t even meet its current authorized strength. The regular forces should have 71,500 members and the primary reserve 30,000. The actual numbers as of the end of March are 65,700 in the regular forces and 23,450 in the primary reserve.

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In a report last month, federal Auditor General Karen Hogan found that the

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