A McLeod Group Blog by Ian Smillie, Sept. 9, 2016
Even before Prime Minister Trudeau announced Canada’s new peacekeeping agenda, the media were awash with excited, not to say hysterical warnings. After the announcement, it was as though he had declared World War III.
The basics in the announcement: first, $150 million a year to a Peace and Stabilization Operations Program (PSOPs)—as far as one can see, very similar to the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) in place since ...
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