EXCLUSIVE: Defence Leaders Pushed Back Against ‘Negative Tone’ of New Military Culture Strategy

Published on June 26, 2024

As Canada’s military continues on a path to overhaul its culture, top leaders in the defence establishment have expressed concerns about the tone used in a new strategy paper guiding the change. The military’s new guiding document, “Defence Team Culture Evolution Strategy,” which is already being rolled out but hasn’t been publicized, blames “colonialism,” “patriarchy,” and “heteronormativity” for cultural problems affecting the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). A summary of the feedback from defence leaders on the new guiding document appears in a September 2023 briefing note for Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Wayne Eyre and then-National Defence Deputy Minister Bill Matthews. The briefing note was released via the access-to-information system....

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