🇨🇦 Half a million troops when they can't even fill current ranks

Carney's generals want to balloon the military to 500,000 personnel while the CAF sits 30,000 bodies short of its 2017 target. The recruiting machine is broken, training is bottlenecked, equipment sits idle for lack of operators, but sure—let's triple the force and buy submarines we can't crew. Carignan is studying Ukraine's mobilization playbook, a country literally fighting an existential war, to justify padding Canada's payroll with lightly trained citizen soldiers. This isn't national defence, it's bureaucratic empire-building dressed as urgency.

Meanwhile the same government that destroyed military culture with DIE purges and vaccine mandates now expects a recruitment surge because they threw money at the problem. The math doesn't work, the infrastructure doesn't exist, and the political class doesn't care—it's about optics and procurement contracts, not operational readiness. NATO theatre for a hollowed-out force.

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