Peacekeeping announcement much ado about nothing

The Liberals would rather be chequebook peacekeepers than put enough Canadian boots on the ground.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, left, and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan attend a UN Vancouver peacekeeping summit on Nov. 15. Photograph courtesy of the PMO

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

November 22, 2017

OTTAWA—On Nov. 15, the Trudeau government used the backdrop of a United Nations peacekeeping summit in Vancouver to make what amounted to a non-announcement on Canada’s future role as a peacekeeper. This is something that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals had campaigned hard for during the 2015 e...

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