More than a year after pledging up to 750 troops and police for United Nations peacekeeping missions, the Canadian government still can’t say where they’ll be headed. “We believe in the United Nations and we believe in peacekeeping,” Trudeau said. It could be another six to nine months before any decision is made about troop deployments, military officers say. Large-scale contributions to UN missions such as the one in Mali also appear to be off the table. For instance, military officers said, a deployment of four helicopters in Canada could involve up to 250 individuals, depending on the support needed.

Source: National Post November 15, 2017 17:26 UTC