🇨🇦 Ottawa nominates diversity hire to NATO's top military post while our forces can't recruit, retain, or deploy

Trudeau's Liberals want Gen. Jennie Carignan — chief of the defence staff for barely a year — to chair NATO's military committee while the Canadian Armed Forces languish in crisis. Recruitment is flatlined, equipment is geriatric, and readiness is a punchline. But sure, let's export our DEI poster general to Brussels. McGuinty calls her exceptional, yet she's overseen no transformation, no procurement wins, no operational turnaround. Just optics.

This isn't about competence or Canada's security interests. It's about virtue-signaling on the world stage while our military hollows out at home. NATO doesn't need another committee chair from a country that barely cleared the 2% spending threshold last minute. It needs functioning militaries. We can't even defend our own Arctic, but we're nominating generals for international photo ops.

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