Members of the Canadian Armed Forces help move sandbags near Ottawa on April 28, 2019, as rising waters forced people out of their homes. Many weather-related disasters are hitting Canada at the same time as key military training periods.
An analysis by The Canadian Press last May showed the military had been asked to help with 10 weather-related disasters over the previous two years. That’s compared to 20 such calls between 2007 and 2016. The number of soldiers involved has also increased as the size of the disasters has grown. Readiness is the term militaries use to describe their ability to do their jobs at a given moment. For the Canadian Army, that means being ready to fight.
“It’s like a hockey team that would never train, never play on the ice together, and then all of a sudden being thrown into an NHL game and be expected to win,” he said in an interview. “You’ve got to keep doing that .”
What a crock!
The number of troops logically has to go up, both RegForce and Reserves. Raising another brigade group for Atlantic Canada - 3CMBG - is the way to go.
Dealing with natural disasters and aid to the civil power both in Canada and abroad will probably become the military’s top priority due to the existential threat of human caused climate breakdown with a need for more resources to be focused on this threat.
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