Eyre’s right: Canada needs to move beyond its peacekeeping myth

There's every chance that we will get back to peacekeeping missions in the future after we've restored the Canadian Armed Forces to what it always should have been: a military capable of defending this country by effectively fighting and winning battles, in the hopes that we will never need to do so.

Then-chief of defence staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre, centre, pictured with Maj.-Gen. Darcy Molstad, left, deputy commander, Canadian Joint Operations Command, Canadian Armed Forces;and Jonathan Quinn, right, director general, Continental Defence Policy, on the Hill on March 7, 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MATT GURNEY

October 5, 2026

TORONTO—Wayne Eyre, the retired Canadian Armed Forces general and former chief of the defence staff, has a new book. I confess I actually haven't read it yet, but it's on my list, and I will soon.

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