If Canada goes to Mali, it will be an exercise in useless tokenism

The Liberals should push the rethink button before committing troops there or any other no-hope missions in which we have no vested national interest.
Members of a Chadian contingent of the United Nations mission in Mali patrol the streets of Kidal in the country's north on Dec. 16, 2016.
OTTAWA—Since last August, it has been known that the Liberal government is intent on sending a peacekeeping force to a United Nations mission somewhere on the African continent. Canadians have been told there will be approximately 600 soldiers deployed and the budget for the UN peacekeeping progr...

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