More than half of Canadians (56 per cent) see the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as “old and antiquated,” according to a recent Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News. “The solution to that, Canadians tell us, is probably giving them more money. And if they could just find their way through, what Canadians see as incompetence and political interference … Canadians feel that they could get there. But at the moment, definitely not there,” Ipsos CEO Darrell Bricker told Global News.
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