BREAKING: Conservatives to force defence probe over Juno News leak
Conservative defence critic and MP James Bezan says his party will force a parliamentary investigation over Juno News' exclusive leak on collapsing standards in Canadian Armed Forces training.
Conservative defence critic and MP James Bezan says Conservatives will force a parliamentary investigation into the Liberal government’s military recruitment reforms after Juno News exclusively leaked an internal Canadian Armed Forces report detailing ethnic infighting, collapsing standards and cultural conflicts inside officer training platoons dominated by non-citizen recruits.
In a statement released Friday and provided to Juno News, Bezan announced Conservatives will table a motion at the Standing Committee on National Defence to study the Liberals’ changes to CAF recruitment policies, their impact on military training success rates and what he described as “serious issues” facing the recruitment and training system.
“The Minister of National Defence held a press conference last week specifically to brag about what he sees as successes in recruiting for the Canadian Armed Forces,” said Bezan. “But he failed to mention he knew that the basic training success rate has fallen to 77% in the first three quarters of 2025-26, down from a historical average of 85%.”
The comments come days after Juno News exclusively revealed that a confidential Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School report documented severe dysfunction inside a Quebec-based officer training platoon composed of 83 per cent permanent residents, many of whom had only recently arrived in Canada.
