The Canadian Forces have an overriding policy of not competing with domestic business and domestic economies. Calling in the military to conduct routine “economic development”, for lack of a better term, would probably not be well received domestically. Once again, you're taking resources away from the Canadian Forces, which—ideally—would be training, deploying, responding or doing something else.
Again, I've voiced my opinion on creating specific units of reserves to complete specific tasks, in which case they're not available or not trained to complete other tasks.
I want to come around to what I've been advocating for throughout this entire session: We want to figure out how to get the largest pool of military assistance to the greatest number of Canadians for decisive and enduring effects. That's the question we actually have to be dealing with here, and—