National Defence committee  I'm really going to have to say all of the above—

National Defence committee  —but let me tell you, on pre-deployment training, as I said, it's impossible for the UN to send trainers to every troop deployment. I talked about this when I was in DFS. If we could get trainers.... I think Canada has a very nice program where you utilize retired.... I forget th

National Defence committee  Thank you for that important question. It's something that I think all of us here who are appearing before you feel is a very important element. I want to give you two examples. When we took over from the African Union, both in Darfur and in Mali, one of the things that struck

National Defence committee  I think part of it is, as we see in many countries, is the rise of a sort of nationalism and tendencies towards more isolationist policies. I think the UN becomes a very useful scapegoat in the debates of politicians and leaders in this country. This kind of attack on the UN....

National Defence committee  Yes, I think there is a lack of understanding. I also want to say that, even from Canada's perspective, there are two ways to look at it. One is that you can put your own troops into the peacekeeping arena. However, there's also another very important element, which is to suppo

National Defence committee  First of all, as I said, I think the broader issue is your continued and steadfast support of multilateralism in general. However, specific things that all of the other colleagues have also said are your own involvement in peacekeeping operations, your own involvement in resourci

National Defence committee  What I talked about was the overall push against multilateralism, that this notion of international community is eroding. In other words, I think the positions of many of our member states, and then some of the key ones that are against, make it a kind of fight now, almost, for t

National Defence committee  That's part of what I hope Canada and other like-minded countries.... As I said, when you go to New York, I hope you can push against that in terms of your unwavering support for multilateralism.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for inviting me. A lot has already been said by Adam and Richard, so I'm going to try my best not to repeat but perhaps to emphasize different facets of what they said. First of all, I want to set the context of where we are and how we define terms. Even tho