The Canadian military is now accepting permanent residents and has dropped its requirement that enlistees must be Canadian citizens.
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) made the announcement on Nov. 5 amid ongoing reports of the military’s recruitment crisis.
In October, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre called attention to the staffing shortage, saying there needs to be “a whole-of-society effort to help us bring the Armed Forces back to where it needs to be for the dangerous world ahead.”
The CAF’s new basic recruitment requirements are that either Canadian citizens or permanent residents aged 18 years and older can apply so long as they have completed schooling at least up to grade 10….