Evidence of meeting #52 for National Defence in the 41st Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was aircraft.
A recording is available from Parliament.
NDP
RAdm J.J. Bennett
No, it means.... In the reserve, because people parade or train on a part-time basis, that number may surge at certain periods during the year. We average it out over a period of about nine months, so the average paid strength of people who are attending on a regular basis is just over 21,000.
NDP
RAdm J.J. Bennett
No, that's the supplementary reserve. There are just over 5,000 Canadian Rangers.
NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
I was asking about the supplementary reserves. The 15,600 is not the supplementary reserves.
RAdm J.J. Bennett
No, the Canadian Rangers.... There are four sub-components of the reserve force: the primary reserve—
NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
We have the primary complement that is 27,000, with 21,000 average paid. We have the supplementary, excluding the Rangers, at 15,600. We have the Rangers at 5,000.
NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
That is 8,000.
You announced a year ago that there would be a reduction in the number of administrative people within the cadet instructors from 800 to 400.
NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
These are not people who deliver the programs in the army across the country.
RAdm J.J. Bennett
Not generally at the corps and squadron level, no; these are people who work in headquarters or who work in support of the program.