The CAF’s recruitment illusion

The Liberals have fixed a recruitment problem that didn't exist, and as a result are enrolling less-capable recruits into an already over-stretched training system.

Defence Minister David McGuinty. For those cognizant of the actual state of the Canadian military, the problem was never about getting numbers of people in the front door. The bottleneck always lay in the training system, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

July 20, 2026

OTTAWA—Recent headlines in the Canadian media have heralded a significant spike in military recruiting.

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