Editing Canadian Armed Forces (section)

==Military families==
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The portrait of military families in Canada from the 2021 Census had 345,180 military families, making up 3. 4% of all families in the country. This group included 53,510 active military families. Among these, 74. 1% were couple families with one partner serving and the other having no military experience, 11. 8% had both partners serving, 7. 5% had one partner serving and the other a Veteran, and 6. 6% were one-parent families with a serving parent. The majority, 291,670, were Veteran families, mainly consisting of couple families where one spouse was a Veteran and the other had no military experience at 87. 6%. Additionally, 6. 5% were one-parent Veteran families and 6. 0% had both partners as Veterans.<ref name="z178">{{cite web | title=Military families in Canada | website=Statistics Canada | date=13 January 2025 | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2025001-eng.htm | access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref> 

More than 80% of military families in Canada were identified as Veteran families, while the remaining percentage was active.The report also highlighted the distribution of active military, Veteran, and non-military families. In Ottawa–Gatineau, 11. 1% were active military families, 7. 8% were Veteran families, and 3. 8% were non-military families. Similar proportions were observed in Halifax and Québec.<ref name="z178"/> 

Active military families were more likely than Veteran and non-military families to have moved to a different province or territory in the past five years. The report detailed that 24. 1% of couple families and 15. 4% of one-parent families in the active category lived in a different province compared to 4. 0% and 1. 9%, respectively, for Veteran families, and 2. 4% and 1. 9% for non-military families.<ref name="z178"/>