We're entering the age of permanent crisis we aren't equipped for: Canada Undefended (National Post)

Canada’s military is short 16,000 troops, its branches are operating below readiness thresholds half the time and its budget is being cut as wars erupt worldwide.

. . . . Political leaders will be faced, not with an easy choice between good and evil, but between what is acceptable, what can be achieved, and whether one alternative is less evil than another, he says.

Canada will not escape the hostilities on the horizon. Its Pacific Ocean border with its western outlook may witness the next great global conflict. And, as security analysts have pointed out, Canada, with an under-resourced military, aging equipment — especially a fleet of four submarines that is rarely on the water, still less below it — is ill-prepared to face the oncoming tide of tragedy . . . .

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