CBC: Gen. Jennie Carignan, the chief of the defence staff, told CBC News in a recent interview that she’s finalizing a series of recommendations aimed at significantly increasing the size of both the reserve and the regular force.
A proposal that could see as many as 300,000 lightly trained citizen soldiers given the opportunity to serve alongside as many as 100,000 primary reservists and 85,500 regular force members has been under discussion for almost a year…