Meh. Sensationalist title doesn’t seem justified by what she said. What I heard was, ‘we’re having such a hard time recruiting that we are lowering our standards and expectations to try and fill the gap.’
Something similar to this was posted here a couple months ago I believe. I believe it was a beauracrat or politician that may of said it. I can not seem to find it just yet...
Been over twenty years since I was in. I remember at the time thinking to myself often that it would be a terribly easy thing for subversives to fuck over.
Done properly sabotage is indistinguishable from incompetence.
Apparently this high and mighty military official was rumoured to have left her post in Afghanistan:
“The allegation, which was not accompanied by any evidence, is that while leading a NATO training mission in Iraq, Carignan, then a major-general, attempted to leave her post and extricate herself along with her personal belongings ahead of her troops under her command before being turned around by a more senior NATO general.”
The Department of National Defence says rumours that Canada’s new chief of defence staff tried to get out of Iraq ahead of the troops she was commanding on a 2020 NATO mission are “entirely false, baseless and unfounded.”