The recruiting hole in which the Canadian military finds itself is deeper and potentially more serious than it might appear at first glance — in part because of all the new equipment the federal government has ordered, or plans to order in the near future.
Just recently, Defence Minister Bill Blair estimated the military is short up to 16,500 members and said the Armed Forces’ failure to boost recruitment is leading it into a “death spiral.”
But the country’s top military commander, Gen. Wayne Eyre, told CBC News in a recent interview that the problem is actually bigger than the numbers cited by the minister suggest.
