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Canada May Turn to Foreign Born and Immigrants to Beef Up Its Military Capabilities

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Last updated: October 29, 2024 4:38 am
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The 2024 Military Strength of Canada is concerning to the country’s political leaders.

For 2024, Canada is ranked 27 of 145 out of the countries considered for the annual GFP review. The nation holds a PwrIndx* score of 0.3813 (a score of 0.0000 is considered ‘perfect’).

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; French: Forces armées canadiennes, FAC) are the unified military forces of Canada, including land, sea, and air commands referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force. The CAF also operates several other commands, including the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, the Canadian Joint Operations.

Over the past few years to present, Canada’s military has and continues to face a recruitment problem that the country’s political and military leadership find difficult to address and may not know how to solve at the moment apart from turning to foreign born and immigrants to fill the gap.

On January 1, 1923, the country’s National Defence Act, 1922 came into effect, merging the Department of Militia and Defense, the Department of Naval Service, and the Air Board to form the Department of National Defense.  The ministerial heads of the former departments, the minister of militia and defense, the minister of the naval service, and the minister of aviation were merged to form a new position, the minister of national defense which is headed by Bill Blair, the current minister of defense.

Minister Blair’s remarks on the problem saying,“Over the past three years, more people have left [the military] than have entered. That is, frankly, a death spiral for the Canadian Armed Forces,” Blair explained to Mercedes Stephenson of Global News following an appearance at the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defense.

Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau with members of Canadian military

According to the minister, “We cannot afford to continue at that pace. We’ve got to do something differently,” Blair continued, later adding that the federal government needed to spend more on defense but was hampered by what he said was the “current fiscal environment.”

In December 2022, the then Minister of National Defense of Canada announced that permanent residents were welcome to apply now to join the Canadian Armed Forces 

From: National Defence

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December 5, 2022 – Ottawa – National defense / Canadian Armed Forces

Permanent residents represent an important, skilled, and diverse workforce in Canada. This is why today, the Minister of National defense, Anita Anand, announced that permanent residents are welcome to apply to enroll in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).

The authority for the enrolment of a citizen of another country, who has permanent resident status under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, has been delegated by the Chief of the defense Staff to the Commander Military Personnel Command and the Commander Canadian Forces Recruiting Group.

Currently, the Canadian Forces Recruiting Group accepts trained applicants from foreign militaries. These applicants include pilots, logistics officers, infantry officers and other skilled professionals, who may become enrolled in the CAF if they have permanent resident status in Canada. The intent is to broaden the pool to enable other permanent residents, who meet the same criteria as Canadian citizens to enroll in the CAF as new recruits or officer cadets.

The CAF encourages permanent residents to give serious consideration to a military career in Canada. Canada offers facilitated pathways to citizenship by recognizing the military service to Canada of permanent residents who join the CAF, and citizenship applications from CAF members will be processed on a priority basis by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).

Changing the culture within the CAF supports the recruitment of new members and allows us to retain existing members as the Department of National Defense and the CAF continue efforts to build an institution where everyone feels safe, protected, and respected.

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