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The CF’s most recent humanitarian deployment was 2010’s Operation HESTIA,
where 2,046 CF personnel deployed on very short notice to Haiti to conduct humanitarian
relief efforts in the wake of a devastating earthquake in early 2010. 20
Domestic
operations also incur a personnel cost; Operation PODIUM, supporting Vancouver 2010
Olympic security in conjunction with other Canadian Government departments, deployed
4,500 CF personnel. 21 In February 2010 more than 12, 000 CF personnel deployed
domestically or internationally, serving Canada’s interests at home and abroad. 22
In light
of the Regular Force TES of 56,700, this figure means more than 21% of the regular force
was committed to critical operations in 2010.
Canada’s navy conducts long deployments, extended sea service without respite
and extended multinational coalition operations. In 2001-2002 HMCS Charlottetown
deployed to the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea as part of Operation APOLLO, Canada’s
contribution to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. During this deployment, it
remained at sea on active operations for 74 straight days, a Canadian navy record, during
which sailors and officers were physically and mentally taxed by constant threat and
maintaining watch for 12 hours per day:
20 Canada, Department of National Defence, Departmental Performance Report 2009-10: Part III
- Estimates, 34, 37.
21 Ibid.; Government of Canada, "Canada's Games | “WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT” APPROACH
- the Framework for Federal Coordination," Canada2010, http://www.canada2010.gc.ca/fin-rep2010/104-
eng.cfm (accessed February 3, 2011).
22 Chief of the Defence Staff, CDS SITREP 02-11, 1.