General Eyre recently complained that the use of military personnel in fighting wildfires in Canada has become, in some cases, “wickedly wasteful”.
He went on to say that he had “made it quite clear to other departments that [the forces'] capacity to do what we did last year is not the same, especially with reduced readiness (and) increased deployments to Latvia.” He told senior officers on a video conference on April 23, “We're not going to have the same forces available...for the scale and duration of response.”
What are we doing to correct this, to make sure we can get back to a high level of readiness from the standpoint of doing what the Canadian Armed Forces are meant to do, which is be prepared to fight?
What's the long-term goal here on supporting domestic operations through Operation Lentus?