OTTAWA – Canada’s top general revealed on Thursday that the armed forces is facing nearly $1 billion in cuts by the Liberal government, saying that ...
Chief of Defence Staff General Wayne Donald Eyre speaks during the Royal Military College Commissioning Parade in Kingston, Ontario, on Friday May 19, 2023.
“Our people see the degrading declining security situation around the world and so trying to explain this to them is very difficult,” he said.Conservative Defence critic MP James Bezan said he hopes the military doesn’t weaken its readiness with these cuts. “We have to prioritize those decisions so they have the least amount of impact possible acknowledging that there will be impact,” he said.
Eyre said the budget cuts are coming as the forces are doing a lot more deployments for natural disasters. He said that is causing wear on tear on air and vehicle fleets and cutting into time the forces should be training. Eyre said all of Canada’s ammunition stocks need to be resupplied and there simply isn’t the contract or companies in place to do many of it.
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