Carney Talks ‘Bench Strength’ as Canada Faces Recruitment Crisis

In terms of security guarantees that Canada can offer, do we have the military bench strength to supply troops so I'll just give a high-level outline and answer your question and I say high level and part because what we're doing and I want to salute Jenny Carrigan the chief of our defence force our national security advisors. Others have been working intensively intensively over the last few weeks, but over the course of the last months with their partners in developing the operational elements of this, so I'm gonna speak in a high-level recognizing there's a lot more underneath, but I'm about to say the first line of defence obviously is Ukrainian on forces and one of the elements of the 20 point plan. A peace plan is going to be the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is considerable as it's negotiated now, so the size would be very large. Secondly, there is a monitoring in other support logistic support that would be provided training support to make sure that the Ukrainian arm forces over the medium term and longer-term I can defend themselves then the Bastos become the coalition, the willing forces so-called multi lateral force of which Canada would be a member under this framework and very importantly the United States is playing a backstock role. Do we have the to get to your specific question? Do we have the the bench strength to use your term well we've been building that bench and we're gonna continue to build that bench. The largest military buildup in generations coming over the course the next five years an additional 80 billion of investment part because of issues like this very importantly, because of issues in our perimeter point specifically to the Canadian artist as an example there so yes, we do with. It would need to be a red deployment, but the last point I'll make just to put in context which, of course we're stronger together, so we we're as part of a coalition as part of a multilateral force coming behind and coming with the Americans that means that our contribution has a much bigger effect that obviously we would if we were on our own.