Liberals’ UN peacekeeping pledges left half finished

The government has yet to make good on its promise of quick reaction force of 200 Canadian soldiers for peacekeeping.

Members of Canada's Mali peacekeeping task force are pictured on June 8 at Camp Castor in Gao. Department of National Defence photograph by Corp. François Charest

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BY NEIL MOSS

September 2, 2019

As Canada exits its peacekeeping mission in Mali, an expert in the field says Canada has only met half of its commitments to re-engage in UN peacekeeping missions, and those that were met are not being sustained. Walter Dorn, a defence studies professor at Kingston’s Royal Military College and To...

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