The Canadian military is broken...

and the current budget won't help, according to a story in the Toronto Globe & Mail.

Canada's armed forces are so underfunded and overstretched that the government's much-lauded budget commitments may not come close to fixing them, suggest documents released to The Canadian Press.

Economic impact assessments filed by all three services paint a picture of a decaying military that is, as the navy commander put it, fast approaching the point of “critical mass in its ability to execute its mission.”

The navy is docking ships, the air force is grounding planes and the army may some day be unable to meet overseas commitments without significantly more cash, say the documents, obtained under access to information.

Read the whole article - it's quite sad, actually. But, will the Conservatives really fix the military?