The Canadian military insists it’s getting a handle on its recruiting crisis, but a new leaked internal report obtained by CBC News suggests many of those who come through the door quickly leave in frustration over the inability to get trained and into the job they want.

In addition, the effort to retain experienced soldiers, sailors and aircrew was dealt an important blow recently when a Department of National Defence office — set up to find ways to keep people — was defunded.

The struggle to recruit new members to both the regular and the reserve force has been a major preoccupation as the Forces face a shortage of up to 14,000 qualified personnel.

But the flip side of the equation — that has gotten less attention — is the effort to hold on to people, especially in critical technical trades.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 days ago

    There’s a lot of people shoiwing up here to argue for WWIII

    And that’s cringe

    If we were talking about a bad country then I would be getting up voted

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
      31·
      2 days ago

      Nobody is advocating for WWIII. Where did you even read this?

      We’re talking défense ffs. Can you even read?

    • Alloi@lemmy.world
      32·
      2 days ago

      war is cringe, but the US is the cringiest nation right now, and they want to annex us, which is super duper cringe. they are slowly prepping their population and military to do the cringiest war(s) possible. its dumb as hell. we dont want it. and because of that, we have to do cringey things to stop the worst case cringe, or maybe even deter it entirely in case the cringe comes over the boarder to do cringe stuff.

      you may not like it (neither do i) but if someone came into my house to sexually assault me id rather be wearing jeans and a belt, than no pants at all.

      we are just “trying” to put the jeans and belt on right now. there is nothing cringe about defending our home and rights from a foreign invader. much like it isnt cringe to defend yourself from being assaulted.

      trust me im with you, i hate war. but id rather be canadian than american.

      war is cringe. so lets deter it.