Decision On U.N. Peacekeeping Mission Still Up In The Air, Says Defense Minister
September 14 2017
Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan says that the Canadian government has not yet decided on a peacekeeping mission to join and will not announce such a decision before a major peacekeeping conference in November in Vancouver, reports the Toronto Star.
Not long after coming to power in November 2015, the Liberal government said it would dispatch around 600 military personnel and 150 police to a U.N. peacekeeping mission, likely in Africa.
Separately, a senior government source...
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