Canada is back, but where?

The situation in South Sudan makes it an appropriate place for Canada to make its long-vaunted re-entry onto the world peacekeeping stage.

Nuer children are seen at a UN protection-of-civilians site. Two million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out in 2013. Photograph courtesy of Nicholas Coghlan

Opinion

BY NICHOLAS COGHLAN

October 25, 2017

In October 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that “Canada is back” on the international stage, and that there would be a renewed Canadian commitment to UN peacekeeping operations. In August 2016, the government made a more specific pledge: Canada would provide up to 600 military pers...

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