Closing out the UN peacekeeping era

DND’s move to ‘better align CAF resources’ is effectively a death knell on Canada's history of exemplary UN peacekeeping work.

Warrant Officer Eric Dugas from 2^nd Battalion, Royal 22^e Régiment interacts with local children during a dismounted presence patrol in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during Operation Hamlet on Sept. 13, 2013. DND photograph by MCpl Marc-André Gaudreault

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

August 10, 2026

OTTAWA—On July 17, the Department of National Defence issued a press release stating that Canada was phasing out a number of United Nations peacekeeping operations to which we currently have troops deployed.

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