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The general officer corps is a growth industry in Canada.

Lee Berthiaume of the Canadian Press writes that new figures show the ranks of the Canadian Forces’ senior brass have been growing at a much faster rate than the rest of the military over the last 15 years as dozens of generals and admirals have been added. There were 130 generals and admirals in January 2018 compared with 81 during same month in 2003 — a 60 per cent increase over a period in which the rest of the military grew by less than two per cent, Berthiaume wrote. The size of the Canadian Forces is 71,500 Regular Force members and 30,000 Reserve Force members, according to the Department of National Defence.

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The increase in generals came despite a review by then Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, now a Liberal MP, that the upper ranks of the Canadian military should be trimmed.

In fact, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance told Berthiaume that he is going to add more generals in the coming years. “The number of general officers in militaries is not a direct reflection or correlation to the number of people you have in your military,” he said. “We don’t grow generals because we want more generals.”