[ChaseQ]

I am very impressed with the knowledge you have of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, and am pleased to know that the Canadian presence has been not without it's friends.
I agree that the CF Airborne Regiment never was a Special Forces unit on a par with the US Army Special Forces, or the US Navy SEALs, not to mention the USMC Force Recon, but for the sake of argument I would pose the argument that while not quite Special Forces in the commonly accepted sense, they were definitely not regular forces either.
I would suggest that the Canadian Airborne regiment filled a niche that nobody else could have in the Canadian military table of operations, and for that reason it could be considered an SF regiment per se, if not in actual fact.
My apologies if this offends anyone in the SF community, and any offence is certainly not intended.
Having said that, however, the CF Airborne Regiment was quite capable of working alongside the British SAS 22, and it had done so quite well on numerous training exercises. Not to mention, as you have , that it also performed well when working alongside our American counterparts.
While JTF-2 is indeed an SF unit to be proud of, and I have the utmost respect for their work and dedication, it is simply undermanned and underfinanced to be as effective as it should be.
It would make more sense, I think, to reinstate the Airborne Regiment, and then spend the time and money to further train these men and women ( must be politically correct ya know) to a standard that would , if not meet JTF-2 standards, at least allow the Airborne Regiment to operate as a 1st line of support and/or a pool of skilled individuals that the JTF could draw on for its personnel, as they would already be trained to a level that would dramatically reduce the amount of time and further training that would be needed to meet the JTF standards that the CF regular forces require.