[Devils'Advocate]

BTW - for context, from Wikipedia, so that you understand the guy's service record. Which to me sounds quite an impressive career. Maybe you guys see it differently, kinda on par with a "business manager". *shrug*

Leslie joined the 30th Field Regiment when at University of Ottawa.[4] He went on to be Commanding Officer of 1st Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in Shilo, Manitoba.[4] While in London, England, as a graduate student he was attached to the Honourable Artillery Company.[5]
In 1995 he was promoted to Colonel and sent to the Former Yugoslavia as Chief of Staff for Sector South.[4] He then became the Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia.[4]
He was the Area Chief of Staff during the Manitoba floods in Spring 1997.[4] Later in 1997 he became the commander of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group which was sent to the South shore of Montreal to help with disaster relief operations.[4]
In 2000 he was given responsibility for communications in the Canadian Forces and in 2002 he became the commander of Land Force Central Area.[4]
He became Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2003 and then became Assistant Chief of the Land Staff in 2004.[4] In June 2006 he was appointed Chief of the Land Staff.[6]
In June 2010, General Leslie was replaced as Chief of Land Staff by Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin.[7] At the same time, LGen Leslie was named Chief of Transformation for the Canadian Forces.[8]