Canada’s Languishing Military Reflects Lacking Federal Leadership

Canadian soldiers attend NATO military exercises at a training ground in Kadaga, Latvia, on Sept. 13, 2021. AP Photo/Roman Koksarov, File

Commentary

One good thing about having an atrophied military, you’d think, is at least it would be easy to staff. But you’d be wrong, in Canada anyway. The Canadian Press noted blithely the other day that we’re about 12,000 short of our feeble target strength of 100,000. Not to mention the 10,000 unavailable through illness, injury, or lack of training. So hey, let’s ask them to do everything including deliver COVID shots.