MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Council of Canadians in Victoria to discuss Canada’s abandonment of peacekeeping and how to restore it.

As the 50th anniversary of UN peacekeeping approaches, Steve Staples will be in Victoria to discuss his paper “Marching Orders: How Canada abandoned peacekeeping and why the UN needs us now more than ever.” This urgent new report commissioned by the Council of Canadians exposes the alarming consequences of Canada’s role in Afghanistan and calls on the Canadian government to withdraw from Afghanistan and return to its role as a leader in peacekeeping, peace diplomacy and peacebuilding. (more…)