The Ottawa Citizen, The Canadian Forces should be expanded to 80,000 full-time personnel to meet growing international military demands in a changing world, says a report to be released today by six leading Canadian foreign policy experts.
Most of those new troops should be used to bolster the army instead of the air force or navy, says a key recommendation from the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, the Citizen has learned.
The institute urges the government to re-think Canada's foreign policy goals and will release its report to mark the start of a conference on the subject at Carleton University.
The report, titled In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy in an Insecure World, also calls for bolstering Canada's depleted reserve forces to 40,000 troops, more than double the current number.
The report advocates restoring Canada's military strength to levels not seen since the era of Brian Mulroney's Conservative governments in the 1980s.
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