Carignan is currently the military’s chief of professional conduct and culture
A woman will finally hold the Canadian military’s top job, after the federal government named Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan as the new defence chief on Wednesday.
Carignan joined the military in 1986, and has commanded combat engineer regiments and led troops responding to floods in Quebec.She received the Meritorious Service Medal and the Governor General’s Order of Military Merit, and her deployments included Afghanistan, Bosnia and Syria. She led a yearlong NATO mission in Iraq that ended in late 2020.
“A lot of people have seen and perceived the Trudeau government efforts toward inclusivity and gender parity as performative,” Duval-Lantoine said. Carignan takes over a military in transition, amid the ongoing culture change efforts and the urgent task of trying to rebuild its ranks after years of declining recruitment and poor retention.
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