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North America > Canada > Military

Air force personnel 14,000 [25th of 49]
Armed forces growth -29 [102nd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 59,000 [58th of 166]
Army personnel 20,900 [39th of 49]
Branches
Canadian Forces: Land Forces Command (LFC), Maritime Command (MARCOM), Air Command (AIRCOM), Canada Command (homeland security)
Conscription
No conscription (AI).
Conventional arms exports $543,000,000.00 [5th of 40]
Conventional arms imports $340,000,000.00 [14th of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 1.14 % Time series [82nd of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $9,801,700,000.00 Time series [13th of 111]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 2,000 [14th of 30]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 8,391,120 [36th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 16 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 227,435 Time series [50th of 226]
Navy personnel 9,000 [28th of 49]
Operation Enduring Freedom > Afghanistan coalition fatalities 16 [4th of 13]
personnel 71,000 Time series [64th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.4 % Time series [131st of 168]
Service age and obligation
17 years of age for male and female voluntary military service (with parental consent); 16 years of age for reserve and military college applicants; Canadian citizenship or permanent residence status required; maximum 34 years of age; service obligation 3-9 years
Weapon holdings 1,774,000 [44th of 137]

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SOURCES: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy; calculated on the basis of data on armed forces from IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Data collected from the nations concerned, unless otherwise indicated. Acronyms: Amnesty International (AI); European Council of Conscripts Organizations (ECCO); Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC); International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHFHR); National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO); Service, Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ); War Resisters International (WRI); World Council of Churches (WCC); SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.; World Development Indicators database; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Operation Enduring Freedom, icasualties.org, May 18, 2006; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Canada, Canada & Newfoundland

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Lion/allied forces
2nd October 2010
To Northern Light.

The woman I call lisette is a female officer from the AIVD and the other woman overhere is a policewoman from the rotterdam policeforce.

Place both women on the list.

Will remove them from the list as the situation is solved.

Signed.Lion allied forces.
Lion
25th August 2010
To golden eye.

Hope this line is save.

AIVD unwilling to change.

Report.Justice/allied forces.
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