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What’s ahead for Canada’s first female defence chief? Observers warn of ‘glass cliff’
OTTAWA — Canada will make history Thursday when Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan takes over command of the Armed Forces as chief of the defence staff.
Carignan, who replaces retiring Gen. Wayne Eyre, is the first woman to do the job.
She’s spent the last three years leading the military’s efforts to change the toxic culture that allowed the 2021 sexual misconduct crisis to occur.
Her tenure as the top commander comes at a time when the military is trying to stop what the defence minister recently called a recruitment “death spiral.”