Gen. Wayne Eyre said he's 'cautiously optimistic' that the Canadian military is on the 'upswing,' but that growth is still 'not fast enough' to face the global threat environment.
and confronting the reality that the threats posed by a challenging and complex global environment have arrived on its doorstep, the outgoing chief of the defence staff says.said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the Canadian Armed Forces is on the “upswing,” with new commitments to defence spending, slow improvements to recruitment, and a recognition of security as a top priority for both the government and Canadians.
New legislation passed by the House of Commons last week adds military intelligence to the list of classified information that will be illegal to share with foreign state actors.“We know we’re a target,” Eyre said. “We know our members have some coveted information, skills, experience. And so it’s something we have to be very much on the lookout for.
But he did say he believes a “national security dialogue” is needed to better inform Canadians of the threats that exist, so they can then demand their members of Parliament take security more seriously.Eyre said he’s expressed a need to his team for the Canadian military to scale up its readiness by the end of this decade at the earliest, pointing to the military buildups taking place in China and Russia.
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