As the task gets more dangerous, Canada’s UN peacekeeping contributions continue to fall

UN peacekeeping missions today are more akin to combat than anything else and can cause comparable casualties. That doesn’t mean we should never go, but putting on a blue beret has never been risk-free.

Members of Operation Presence-Mali conduct an aeromedical evacuation mission, treating two civilian contractors involved in an IED attack before transferring the casualties to a hospital in Gao, Mali, near Camp Castor on Aug. 16, 2019. DND photograph by Cpl. Richard Lessard

Opinion

BY CHRIS KILFORD

June 1, 2020

For some time now, Canadians have been asking why the government hasn’t followed through on several pledges to increase our troop commitments to United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions. Th...

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