From a strategic level, what would be the aim of such a deployment? Would it be to bring peace and security to the country?
A commentary by a former UN Assistant Secretary General and Force Commander UNDOF with experience on three UN missions and who has been to Haiti. He lives in Victoria.
After the tumultuous Trump years when the bilateral Canada-U.S. relationship was badly strained, it certainly would be nice to say “yes.”Insanity is often defined as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. There have been many deployments to Haiti, most under the UN flag. This would not be Canada’s first rodeo in this corral.
Who defines when peace and security has been achieved … the UN, locals? It is easy to get in but horribly difficult to get out of an overseas mission. The situation changed dramatically. The local thugs bowed to NATO’s robust rules of engagement and professional use of lethal force. Few realize that the Canadian Army full-time field force fills the stands of an average NHL rink … that’s it; no more. It’s been that way for decades, even as Canada’s population growth has been one of the fastest in the OECD. Comparatively, the Army’s strength is slightly more than Oak Bay’s population.But the CAF’s priority is to recruit to regain losses of recent years.
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