For more than two years, those interested in Canadian military matters have been waiting for the Conservative government to release its “Canada First” defence strategy. First referenced in the 2006 federal election Conservative Party platform on national defence, the most comprehensive platform presented by any federal political party of consequence, the strategy would focus Canada’s [...]

November 2006 This page of the website is a repository of statistics and information about the presence of the Canadian Forces in each of Canada’s ten provinces and three territories. It will be updated with new information as it becomes available to CdnMilitary.ca. Our goal is to provide you, the reader, with quick access to [...]

January 2006 Author’s Commentary The Canadian public will be casting their ballots in a federal election on Monday, 23 January. An issue of increasing importance to Canadians over the year-and-a-half reign of the last Liberal government was national defence. This raised profile for our nation’s military resulted in promises in the last budget for up [...]

May 2006 The 2006 federal budget on May 2, 2006, promised the Canadian Forces a cash infusion of $5.3 billion over the next five years. It is notable that this promise by the Conservative government is largely empty, as the government included only $1.126 billion in guaranteed funding over this fiscal year and next. The [...]