Bill Blair at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

Thank you very much.

I'm aware that the Canadian Armed Forces has contributed through Operation Helios in the training of the MSS contingent from Kenya. As well, the RCMP has been very much involved in providing training in Jamaica to the PNH. At the same time, with the proposal for this gang suppression initiative that the United States is now bringing forward, the MSS has been chronically understaffed and underfunded since its inception.

I don't disagree, by the way. My sense is that it's because it is a voluntary contribution rather than a chapter VII UN resolution that might have made it a UN mission.

Is it anticipated, with what the United States is proposing for a gang suppression initiative, that it would become something that would be funded through the UN instead of just a voluntary contribution?