The truth about Canadian peacekeeping has been distorted, lied about and covered-up for many reasons. Since the reality about these missions has been often so distorted, Canadians are led to believe that Canada is a peaceful country that has done no harm in the world. Canada’s real role in peacekeeping has been that of securing strategic areas for its imperialist allies and securing its own economic or political interests.

The United Nations (UN) “peacekeeping” missions are widely thought of as an international effort involving an operational force to promote the ending of armed conflict or the resolution of long-standing disputes. But why then have certain areas of the world been concentrated on for peacekeeping, while others have been completely forgotten? Why has the Canadian Forces been subject to cover-ups over its operations during the 1990s? Why are places like Afghanistan (the subject of the articles in this publication) no better off than they were before Canada’s forces entered its borders?

This document will detail many different peacekeeping missions as well as Canada’s Joint Task Force II. This is of course, not a complete history of Canadian peacekeeping but it is focused on the missions many will call the “great milestones in Canadian history”, as well as those missions many would like to forget. (more…)