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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/car...ence-1.7249581

Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan has been named the next chief of the defence staff, CBC News and Radio-Canada have learned — making her the first woman to serve as the top commander of the Canadian military.
Carignan will succeed Gen. Wayne Eyre as leader of the Canadian Armed Forces, a senior source said.

Carignan is currently the military's chief of professional conduct and culture — a newly-created position she's held since April 2021, when she was tasked by the federal government with combating sexual misconduct within the Canadian Armed Forces and changing the military's culture.
Carignan is considered a trailblazer for Canadian women serving in combat roles.

In 2016, Carignan became the first woman from a combat arms trade to rise to the rank of general. She also has served in a number of top staff posts, including chief of staff to army operations at army headquarters.
Her overseas assignments include deployments to the Golan Heights, located between Syria and Israel, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She led a task force of engineers in Kandahar from 2009 to 2010, at the height of the Taliban insurgency in the restive Afghan province.

Carignan takes over the Canadian Armed Forces at a challenging time.
The military has been grappling with what a damning external report by Louise Arbour — a former justice of the Supreme Court and one-time UN high commissioner for human rights — called a toxic culture of sexual misconduct. Nearly a dozen leaders have been accused either of sexual impropriety or of downplaying abhorrent behaviour in recent years.
At the same time, the military is facing what Defence Minister Bill Blair acknowledged is a recruitment "death spiral."
Earlier this year, CBC News reported that only 58 per cent of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) would be able to respond if called upon in a crisis by NATO allies right now — and almost half of the military's equipment is considered "unavailable and unserviceable".

Frankly this isn't a surprise at all, but Canada's choices for the Chief of Defense role, since about 2012 has been a fricken disaster of incapable leadership, some outright scum bags like Vance, or passive blundering incompetance.



So hopefully this turns into a good choice because the Forces needs it. This appointment was no surprise at all, though I'd hoped that they would have appointed Maj Gen Steve Boiven who had commanded JTF2, then moved on to command all special Forces in Canada.



The Forces is in a self admitted death spiral though, with awful recruiting numbers, terrible retention problems, and equipment that has been allowed to rust for too long.



I still don't think its fixable anyways.