Mr. Mulroney stated the need to expand expeditionary forces, whereas Dr. Perry says we must decide if we want military to be a domestic responder or a defensive kinetic force.
Should Canada be considering preserving our weapons-trained military to combat military aggression abroad, thereby upholding our collective defence operations and agreements, but also stand up a national guard to augment civilian first responders and frontliners, and a corps of engineers to monitor the critical physical infrastructure conditions of dikes and seawalls and to be able to rapidly deploy to major disasters?
That question is for both of our witnesses