OTTAWA — As details remain scarce around Canada’s prospective deployment to a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Conservatives are asking the Liberal government for a formal debate and vote in the House of Commons. This style of debate, according to Chagger’s office, is what is being offered to the Conservatives now. “The government believes in the importance of the House of Commons having an opportunity to debate international deployments. At the time, the UN Secretary General’s office was preparing to nominate a Canadian general as the head of the Mali mission. The number of Canadian peacekeepers assisting in United Nations missions is down by more than half since Trudeau took office, according to UN data.

Source: National Post April 26, 2018 01:02 UTC