National Defence committee  Again, I don't think we need to pick one or the other. If there is a special vehicle that is needed to address that specific problem, by all means we should have it, but I don't think that this should delude us into believing that this special vehicle is going to solve the proble

National Defence committee  I've been asked this as well several times. It was considered a huge move that Canada recently.... We have comply or explain now, which is the lowest bar. There's comply or explain, then there are targets, and then there are quotas. Unfortunately, quotas are burdened with all of

National Defence committee  You know GBA+, gender-based analysis plus, the one that doesn't just consider gender but all the other factors that I mentioned, the identity markers. I think that's something peacekeeping missions should take far more seriously, that the identities of peacekeepers are more compl

National Defence committee  It could be, but the other thing that needs to be addressed is that the interactions between peacekeepers and local populations are so formal. There's very little opportunity. It's always funny to read things that talk about these kinds of utopian visions of peacekeepers and fr

National Defence committee  Always.

National Defence committee  They meet in basements, that sort of thing, and often don't have resources. In that regard, I also really like the fact that this $150 million is not tied. They want to give it to organizations that are already doing the right thing on the ground, and not micromanaging them to sa

National Defence committee  Are you going to give me money?

National Defence committee  I feel very fortunate. I do feel very well funded because just the title of being a Canada research chair is a good one. I do well. I get really good funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I actually get a fair bit of research money from everywhere. To