Carney taking a 'cautious' position in comments about sending troops to Ukraine

Internal Department of National Defence reports have warned that current operational demands have the Canadian Armed Forces stretched thin.

National Defence's annual departmental plan, published in June, cautions that the Canadian Army is "currently at its force generation sustainability limit."

Canada's military already has around 2,000 troops deployed in Latvia, Canada's largest overseas mission, but the army only has some 13,000 deployable soldiers total.