Military needs help from Canadians amid personnel crisis: defence chief
“So cracking that code — how do we incentivize movement to those locations — this is the big challenge.”An opinion poll conducted on behalf of the Defence Department earlier this year found most Canadians reluctant to consider a military career.
Many of the recruitment and retention challenges are not new, and past commanders have rolled out a litany of initiatives aimed at fixing them. “The walls have not come tumbling down and we didn’t lose operational effectiveness overnight,” Eyre said of the new gender-inclusive dress code, which also for the first time allows long hair, fingernail polish and face tattoos while in uniform.“I’m more concerned about: Can they fight? Are they fit? Do they follow orders?”
“The price of accommodation is skyrocketing,” he said. “But it’s more acute for our members because we expect them to move across the country on a more frequent basis. And so addressing that is right at the top of the list of things that need to be fixed.”Eyre acknowledges that it has been difficult trying to change an institution with decades of established tradition — a tradition that he has been immersed in for nearly 40 years. But he says he and the Armed Forces have no choice.
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