The Globe and Mail: A May 13 e-mail from National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, obtained by The Globe and Mail, cites this inventory shortfall.
It directs all Canadian Armed Forces members in the region, if they are not assigned to a “deployable unit,” to hand in several pieces of personal kit, including backpacks and fragmentation vests, which are used to hold armour plates to protect the wearer from shrapnel and shell fragments.
…Experts have said for years that the Canadian military was chronically underfunded…