Military Canada
Military branches:
Canadian Armed Forces: Land Forces Command, Maritime Command, Air
Command
Military manpower - military age and obligation:
16 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 8,417,314 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 7,176,642 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 214,623 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$9,801.7 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.1% (2003)
Transnational Issues Canada
Disputes - international:
managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance,
Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed
Machias Seal Island and North Rock; uncontested dispute with Denmark
over Hans Island sovereignty in the Kennedy Channel between
Ellesmere Island and Greenland