加拿大首位女性将领接管了国家武装部队的指挥权。珍妮·卡里尼昂将军在加拿大战争博物馆接受了这一任命，并表示自己已做好准备，感到自己有能力应对这个巨大的挑战。卡里尼昂将军是一名军事工程师，曾在加拿大陆军服役35年，在阿富汗、波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那、伊拉克和叙利亚指挥部队。
General Jennie Carignan took over as Canada’s chief of the defense staff on Thursday in a ceremony that made her the first woman to command the country’s armed forces. Trained as a military engineer, Carignan has commanded troops in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and Syria during her 35 years in the Canadian Army. “I feel ready, poised and supported to take on this manifold challenge,” Carignan said at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.