Just over four months after the Liberal government renewed its commitment to United Nations peacekeeping, the number of Canadian troops deployed on such missions has hit an all-time low. A Security Council resolution passed in 2015 called for a doubling of the number of women involved in military and police peacekeeping operations within five years. She noted the number of women in UN peacekeeping missions has risen by a "paltry" 0.2 per cent. Deployments nowhere near meeting Liberal promisesUnder the UN banner, Canada currently has three women taking part in UN peacekeeping missions. Both the Canadian military and the RCMP are "working to ensure that more Canadian women are deployed on peacekeeping missions abroad," Freeland added.

Source: CBC News March 15, 2018 21:00 UTC