There are hints of Canada’s return to peacekeeping – let’s hope it comes to pass

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Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Canada could be open to peacekeeping as he spoke about the need to ‘enforce’ Ukraine’s national security.

Lloyd Axworthy was Canada’s foreign minister from 1996 to 2000 and is the current chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council.

During his recent trip to Ukraine , Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that Canada might once again put peacekeeping on the table. He noted that, at least in the medium term, Ukraine’s national security will need to be “buttressed” and “enforced.”

“We are working through with our allies and the coalition of the willing, and with Ukraine , the modalities of those security guarantees on land, in the air and the sea, and I would not exclude the presence of troops,” he said, framing any deployment as par