Few know that all three branches of the Canadian Military , air , sea and ground have only 100,000 standing , full time members.This is a nation of some 23 million peple.
Many reserve units are in a better state of training than some portions of the CAF. Yet they can die and surrender bilingually in French and English.
Canada does not have the money to fund a military, its money goes for socialized medicine and bilingualism. This has Prime Minister Harper extremely worried, because Canada can no longer count on the USA for defence against Russia , with Obama’s isolationist policies.( Putin will expand Russian sovereignty in the Canadian artic and there is not a damn thing Canada can do about that.)
The numbers are actually 68,000 active in a nation of 35 million.
Texas produced 16,000 active duty in 2004 alone, Canada had 28,000 enlistments from 2003 to 2008.