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Government of Canada’s expansion goal of 68,000 regular force members. 14
A March
2010 estimate identified CF voluntary attrition at 4.7%, a significant and welcome drop. 15
The CF in the World
While its primary responsibility is defending Canada, protecting and supporting
Canadians at home, the CF maintains a substantial international presence. The CF’s
largest, most visible current deployment is its commitment, as part of Canada’s Whole of
Government Approach, to Afghanistan. 16
While Afghanistan dominates current public
thinking, the CF also maintains “14 other important missions around the globe” and a
presence in collective security bodies such as NATO. 17
Many of these missions are under
the aegis of the United Nations, in support of other international bodies such as the
African Union, or are short yet large-scale deployments for humanitarian purposes to
alleviate the effects of natural disasters. At any given time, the CF has 8000 personnel
preparing for, returning from or deployed on international operations across the world. 18
13 Chief Military Personnel, Military Personnel Retention Strategy, 1-10.
14 Standing Committee on National Defence, Recruitment and Retention in the Canadian Forces -
NDDN (40-3) (Ottawa: Speaker of the House of Commons, Canada, 2010),
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspxDocId=4393616&Language=E&Mode=1&Par
l=40&Ses=3 (accessed January 24, 2011).
15 Canada, Department of National Defence, Departmental Performance Report 2009-10: Part III -
Estimates (Ottawa: Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat, 2010),
http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2010/sct-tbs/BT31-4-50-2010-eng.pdf (accessed January 15,
2011).
16 Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, "Canada's Approach in Afghanistan,"
http://www.afghanistan.gc.ca/canada-afghanistan/approach-approche/index.aspx (accessed February 2,
2011).
17 Chief of the Defence Staff, CDS SITREP 02-11 (Ottawa: Department of National Defence,
February 17, 2011), 9.