VANCOUVER — The UN is sending early signals that it approves of Canada’s forthcoming plans for peacekeeping, which are expected to involve several smaller contributions rather than a single specific mission that gets all of the government’s available resources. The Trudeau government is promising to finally open the curtains — at least partly — Wednesday on what sort of military personnel and equipment it’s willing to offer to help with the UN’s peacekeeping efforts. Sources have said that rather than focusing on one mission, Canada is offering the UN a veritable grab bag of goodies in the form of helicopters, trainers and other assets for a variety of different missions. That’s because many missions are short on the type of high-end equipment and personnel that Canada can offer, said Atul Khare, who oversees the day-to-day operations of peacekeeping missions in the field. “And I do see a great advantage of distributing that capacity because through distribution of that capacity, the gaps are better filled globally.

Source: National Post November 14, 2017 21:45 UTC