Speaking in the context of domestic ops, for a lot of people, especially when we're speaking about reservists and Canadian Rangers, a domestic deployment might be the only deployment in their career, which may last decades.
There is an appetite for more people to be engaged in domestic ops because it is a way for us to serve and it is an opportunity for us to serve our own communities. This is particularly important for reservists because we still live in our own communities. We don't move far away to a base. That's not to say that appetite doesn't exist on the regular forces side as well.
We want to do more. A lot of us want to be able to do more and accomplish more, but we are also working within the limitations of our equipment and, as you say, our morale is being depleted year after year after more and more budget cuts.
I would love to see a domestic response come out of the military that is superior to what it is now, but we have to do more to invest in what's broken before we start building up capacities as well.