With fewer barriers to entry, military enlistment is higher than it’s been in decades

Joyce Mbongo walked away from a military recruitment table at a career fair near Montreal recently knowing exactly what she wanted to do with her life: join the Canadian Armed Forces. The 17-year-old had already started an application but wanted to talk to recruiters to learn more. She’d thought about it for the past couple of years, she said. “Something just stopped me, like, leaving, going really far from my family, and the training also really scared me, but now I know that that’s what I want to do,” she said, standing between booths on the fair floor. Mainly, she wants to serve her country…