Broken promises: the Trudeau government let down the world on UN peacekeeping

With the U.S. losing its moral compass, Canadian leadership is needed to revitalize this key tool for international mediation.

In a world crying out for help in many quarters, Canada has a vital role to play in making peace operations more effective and responsive, writes Walter Dorn. DND photograph by Corporal François Charest

Opinion

BY WALTER DORN

March 3, 2025

As Canada redeploys its peacekeepers from the Congo to neighbouring Uganda, Canada is showing its long-standing reluctance to help the United Nations in desperate war-torn areas of the world. It is further evidence of a long decline in Canadian peacekeeping under the Trudeau...

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