With regard to the difference between the membership of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) (all branches) as of October 1, 2024, and the CAF’s total authorized strength: (a) how many new members does the CAF need to recruit to reach authorized strength; (b) how many recruitment applications can the CAF process each month; (c) how many Canadians applied to join the CAF each month between October 1, 2023, and October 1, 2024; (d) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF were tasked with processing recruitment applications as of October 1, 2024; (e) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF are needed to process all incoming recruitment applications; (f) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF were tasked with training new recruits up to a deployable state as of October 1, 2024; (g) how many CAF personnel were not sufficiently trained to be deployable as of October 1, 2024; (h) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF are required to train all current members up to a deployable state; and (i) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF will be needed should the CAF reach total authorized strength by October 1, 2025?
In the House of Commons on November 22nd, 2024. See this statement in context.