Defining a role for the Canadian Armed Forces and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief

Overall, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is a significant and growing demand on CAF resources—though it fits uneasily with the vision the CAF has of itself.

Military personnel stack sandbags at Constance Bay on April 30, 2019. Canadian Forces units were deployed to flood zones along the Ottawa River Valley in response to record high water levels.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT, PETER KASURAK

August 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus the problematic nature of the Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) domestic role: for many weeks more than 1,700 members of the CAF were on duty in long-term care homes while another 22,000 CAF members were put on standby. Canada has become increasingly relia...

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