I spent most of my military training on CFB Petawawa and in training centre Meaford. When I got to Meaford in 2000, there were two buildings—shacks—and a few bigger rooms, but they were only transient as well.
It was promised to us then that there would be new buildings coming. Twenty-three years later, there's still nothing.
When I was serving in Petawawa and training for Afghanistan, 12 of us were put in a room meant for four people. They pulled out the single beds, put in bunk beds and then told us to go find cots for the other four.
This is a problem that didn't change much in the entire time I was in the military. It just keeps getting worse, because the buildings are falling apart.
What I heard from the last committee meeting was that they're only building triple-digit at best for four-digit demand. It's going to be 70 years before the problem is fixed, and that's not including any new units that go down in that time frame. This problem is not going to be fixed in my lifetime at this rate.