(Michael P. Reed) wrote in
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been
appointed Minister of National Defence.

Martin is supposedly for reconstituting* the Canadian Armed Forces.
Is this considered a step in that direction, and have any
general-specifics been laid out as of yet?

* My term.

Well we already know the CAF are likely to lose their heavy armo(u)r.
I expect we'll see another round of cuts disguised as a
reorganization of some sort.
As I've said before, the CAF is evolving into a national gendarmerie
aimed squarely at peacekeeping, foreign and domestic.
Any residual military capabilities will be purely coincidental.

IBM

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