Former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Recent tensions with Russia’s threatened invasion of Ukraine affords us all a chance to reflect on whether the size and scope of our present military is sufficient for a country with our population and geography abutting three oceans.Having a total Armed Forces complement of 67,000 personnel, with only a small fraction being combat ready and trained, is deeply insufficient.
We need a Canadian Armed Forces of at least 100,000 regular personnel and an Armed Forces Reserve of no less than 60,000. Present efforts by President Putin to intimidate his way to a new balance of power in Europe, merit not only financial sanctions should there be an invasion, but military deployments that would discourage the Russians from doing the wrong thing.
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