In his opening remarks, the Auditor General said, βThe Canadian Army needs the army reserve in order to carry out assigned missions. The army reserve provides almost half of the Canadian Army's 40,000 soldiers. On major international missions, the Canadian Army expects army reserve units to provide up to 20% of the deployed soldiers.β In paragraph 5 he said, β12 of the 123 army reserve units were smaller than half of their ideal size. Although the Canadian Army provided funding for 21,000 army reserve soldiers, only about 14,000 were active and trained.β
Given that we are 7,000 reservists below the funded amount, would Canadian army reservists be able to constitute 20% of the number of deployed soldiers in the event of a major international mission?