If Canada’s already at war, our military is far from battle ready

Given the sorry state of our military, let’s hope the chief of defence staff is wrong when he says we are already at war with China and Russia.

If we are to take General Wayne Eyre’s, right, assessment to heart that we are already at war, we must also take stock of Canada’s current state of military readiness—and the situation is not good, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 30, 2023

OTTAWA—I must admit that when I retrieved my copy of the Ottawa Citizen from my front porch on the morning of Oct. 27, my heart literally skipped a beat when I read the headline “Russia and China at war with Canada, says General Wayne Eyre.”

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