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National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I can't answer that question yet, because we haven't seen what the results would be.

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, each reservist's situation is different. In Europe, for example, we'll be using more reservists for our mission in Latvia. However, in general, it's difficult to have a large cohesive group of reservists ready for operations. What we're finding with our reserve deplo

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, we continue to look at what else we can do. For example, after the long duration of fighting fires this summer, I asked the team to look at tax-free status, much the same as what we have for overseas deployments. Of course, there's a whole litany of reasons we can't d

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, when I was the army commander in 2020, I implemented something called the Canadian Ranger enhancement program, and that work continues. It looks at exactly those types of issues: compensation and benefits for personally owned equipment, reimbursements, etc. That has be

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  That's an excellent question, Mr. Chair. Deployments of this nature add stress to the individuals' personal and operational tempo. They spend more time in the field, and less time with their families. This factor increases the stress level for families, given the constant deploy

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  For example, the battalion currently stationed in Cyprus and ready to evacuate our citizens from Lebanon was deployed this summer in Quebec to fight fires.

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, the demand is going up. We've seen a doubling every five years, over the last decade and a half, in requests for assistance in responding to natural disasters. The frequency and intensity of natural disasters, I think you'll all agree, are on the increase. What is miss

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  We continue to work with our federal government partners on the situation in Haiti and with our allies to find a solution and support the efforts of other agencies. However, it's very difficult to have a response force. We need to find a long-term solution for this country that

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  I think the force you refer to is the quick-reaction force. I think it's important to note that a quick-reaction force.... If you want put 200 troops on the ground, you have to have everything that goes with that to ensure that the force is set up for success, whether it's for in

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair—

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I was going to say that housing continues to be a challenge. In fact, it's been an increasing challenge over the last number of years. On health care, finding family doctors is something that every Canadian is challenged with, but more so our people as they move more

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  We're trying.

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I think the number is about the same. As I've said before, the truth changes over time, but I think the number of people is almost the same.

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre

National Defence committee  For the reserve force, it is 7,605. If you add that up, it's just shy of 16,000 short in the total force. The important figure on the regular force side is the difference between our trained effective establishment and our trained effective strength, or those we can put out the

September 28th, 2023Committee meeting

Gen Wayne D. Eyre