Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan, chief of professional conduct and culture, sits down for an interview with Radio-Canada's political program Les coulisses du pouvoir in May 2021.
The federal government has named Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan as defence chief, making her the first woman to hold the Canadian Armed Forces' top job.Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan joined the military in 1986 and has led troops responding to floods in Quebec. In 2008, she became the first woman to lead a combat force in the Canadian military. , Carignan's appointment makes her the first woman to hold the Canadian Armed Forces' top job.
Carignan joined the military in 1986. She 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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Montreal on Wednesday that naming the new defence chief was an "extraordinarily important choice." The Armed Forces is short roughly 16,000 troops and for several years it has failed to recruit more members than it has lost to retirement or release, something that Defence Minister Bill Blair called a "death spiral" back in March.Meanwhile, the Armed Forces face increased demands to respond to weather-related emergencies in Canada and boost the country's presence in eastern Europe as war rages in Ukraine.
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