 This decision was made although the MGS met neither some of the key capabilities sought in the notional Canadian ACV nor the futuristic, high technology (and not-yet achieved) requirements for a future ACV that had been highlighted only the year before by the Commander of the Canadian Army to a Canadian Parliamentary committee.Canadian research-wargaming-based operational research studies and other professional public commentators all argued against this move.The biggest concerns were that the ACV's planned weak armour and firepower meant that it could not manoeuvre in the presence of a modern enemy and that it could only use ambush tactics against modern MBTs and AFVs, becoming in effect a death trap if it tried, at all, to fulfil the MBT role.