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Hows this news?
Canada doesn't have a function peacetime battlegroup, we have 3 regiments as "regular force".
The remainder are all reserve. 
This isn't a issue if we actually went to war and everything is mobilized. Standing up "enough bodies" means more military budget is required, and god forbid if we have to increase military spending.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


Converting NATO's so-called "Tripwire" forces in the three Baltic countries to fully topped-up fighting brigades - the kind that could withstand a Russian invasion - is proving to be a challenge for the lead nations involved: Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany.
It seems Canada isn't the only country struggling with the creation of combat brigades - despite the demands of Baltic leaders and the political urgency Western politicians have attached to the project.
"At present - and for the foreseeable future - the British Army is unable to maintain a continuous rotational presence of an entire armoured brigade outside the U.K. without announcing mobilization," says a Centre for Eastern Studies report entitled Expectations vs. Reality: NATO Brigades in the Baltic States.


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We have watched Russia invade Ukraine… they won’t invade the Baltics. >

its... a gesture, to show commitment to NATO.