ABSTRACT
The Militia is run by a large joint staff of regulars and Militia personnel on "call out" that operates through areas and districts headed respectively by brigadier generals and full colonels from the Militia. The Militia is less fortunate than its American and British counterparts in having opportunities for entire units to take part in exercises overseas, for example, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries, though individuals and subunits do so. Except for the Corps of Artillery and the Corps of Engineers, only two armored and three infantry regiments of the Militia have regular affiliates: the Eighth Hussars, the Twelfth Regiment Blinde du Canada, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the Royal Canadian Regiment, and the Royal Twenty-second Regiment of Canada. In the widely dispersed conurbations, traveling time is a formidable obstacle to recruiting and retention, especially in the severe Canadian winter.
