Having been a public servant for Canada since the 1970s, you will have seen trends. You saw the steady attrition in the military after Lahrs was closed, so we were going down towards 60,000 and I understand that the goal was to get down to 40,000 troops. Then 9/11 happened and all that changed.
Right now we have a recruitment crisis going on, and the people who are in the military, as soon as they've done whatever their contract is, want out. They can't deal with this wokeism in the military, and the domestic deployments for some are tedious and not what they signed up to do.