Khan: Has Canada lost its voice on peacekeeping?

Peacekeeping is not what it used to be. Wars are not what they used to be. Nor is the world, for that matter.
Such was the understanding behind the United Nations’ Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Summit in Vancouver this week. Whereas the UN mandate to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” is what originally led to peacekeeping operations, member states seem to now have other ideas about it. Canada definitely does.
It used to be that countries aligned themselve