Archive » Tag: Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan
Why hasn’t Canada kept its UN peacekeeping promises?
August 26, 2019
Who is responsible for the chasm between what Canada promised to deliver on UN peacekeeping and what actually materialized? The answer suggests a failure of leadership on several fronts.
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Trudeau must hold the line again at upcoming NATO Summit.
July 9, 2018
In a 25 June statement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would travel to Brussels, Belgium, to attend the NATO Summit on July 11 and 12, 2018: NATO is a cornerstone of Canada’s international security policy, and an important alliance as we look for more stability in a world going through rapid change. I […]
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Justin Trudeau must face up to Afghan detainee torture allegations
January 10, 2018
We believe this is unfinished business of the most serious kind — accountability for alleged complicity in torture — the only appropriate remedy for which is a public inquiry. – Peggy Mason In September 2015, in the midst of the federal election campaign, the Rideau Institute released a report — Torture of Afghan Detainees: Canada’s […]
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15 months on, Canada still has not pledged actual troops for an actual UN peace operation
November 21, 2017
Our previous blog post featured a new publication from ten experts discussing What Canada Has Done And Should Be Doing For UN Peace Operations (WFM-Canada, John Trent, editor, November 2017). This week we focus on the results of the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial hosted by Canada in Vancouver on 14-15 November. Sadly Canada failed to deliver on its long overdue commitment to […]
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