Ottawa – Canada only has two military women posted on the United Nations peace campaigns, which can be called out by the international body to lead the Ottawa to lead for examples and to remember their goals.
In 2017, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made Canada a big push to become a leader to make women peacefully peace. This was part of his government’s feminist foreign policy.
But statistics show that the number of members of the women Canadian armed forces is going to contribute to peace, so the rock bottom hit recently.
The most recent batch of United Nations figures published in late May shows just 29 Canadians deployed as part of the current United Nations peace operations.
It consists of 18 military staff officers, six police officers and five experts.
The United Nations target says that out of 18 Canadian armed forces officers posted on those missions, 22 percent of women should be women. None of them is.
Three of the six police officers are women.
Walter Dorn, a professor at Defense Studies at the Royal Military College, Canada, said that a bad number of Ottawa has retreated on the pre -political priority – and this could damage the Canadian image on the world stage.
Dorn said in an interview, “We had a really difficult time to meet the United Nations goals, which we supported.” “It is shameful in the international community and the United Nations will be the reason for the flag to flagged as we are not meeting the goals of the United Nations.”
He said, “I think the government is giving this slide,” he said that the United Nations seems to be a very low political priority and that the poor can be taken by Canada.
Canadian press these figures reached several offices for reactions to show poor, including ministers of defense and foreign affairs as well as their departments.
Only the National Defense Department responded, which provided a response from all of them. It states that there are numbers of ups and downs over time and currently six women are: Four police officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and two Canadian Armed Forces members were posted on the mission in the Middle East and South Sudan.
Departmental spokesperson Ked Sadiqu said, “Canada continues to participate in women’s meaningful participation not only in the peace system of the United Nations, but also in other organizations like NATO.”
“The United Nations peace campaign is only one type of peace operations and does not include important bilateral missions such as Ukraine, West Bank or International Criminal Court.”
The department also said that there are 22 women, police and citizens posted on the “peace operation” mission, but the department did not give any breakdown or further information.
Trudeau Liberals vowed in several elections that Canada would promote its United Nations contribution, and promised to increase the number of women on the peace mission in 2017. It also launched a fund called Elsey Pahal to help increase the participation of women in the peace conduct of the United Nations, which showed that the chances of mission’s success increase.
For some time, Ottawa was progressing. During the peace mission in Mali, between 2018 and 2023, the percentage of Canadian women in uniforms increased by 25 percent on peace operations.
When Trudeau left the post earlier this year, there was only one woman of the army on the United Nations Mission.
Jane Bolden, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen University, said the disappointing number may reduce the image of Canada and it can make it less reliable when Ottawa takes such initiative in the future.
But Ukraine and Russia’s invasion of Russia is preparing for future conflicts and US President Donald Trump is showing enmity towards global institutions such as United Nations, today’s world is also very different from the early 1990s.
“Everyone understands the environment that we are all in the context of Trump, America and the whole new world in that regard,” Bolden said.
The Canadian armed forces currently have 1,900 members in Latvia which are on a preventive mission after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Once the government decided to send Latvia to the soldiers in support of NATO, we have gone through the entire idea of the operation of America to any soldier of any number. We are not able to do both in any number right now,” Bolden said.
Women make about 16 percent regular force members within the armed forces writ-loving and about 21 percent of the officials.
Normally peace operations are also in “cum ebab”, Bolden said, currently only 11 United Nations Missions are working worldwide.
“Now we are at very low levels of the United Nations contribution and then, in that context, it makes it difficult to have any significant number of women as that part.”
Canada has come to see himself as a leader from his previous contribution.
At the height of Canada’s efforts in 1993, it was a top contributor to the United Nations Missions with the United Nations missions, with the total military members deployed on the United Nations Missions.
But this has not been the case for a long time, now rank 74th when it is sent to the personnel for the mission.
Former Canadian peace soldiers say they are not surprised by the overall low figures in both sexes.
Retired Brig.-Gen. Gregory Mitchell said that Pickeeping has taken a seat since Canada’s participation in Bosnia and Somalia in the 1990s and noted military shift gear towards military rebellion in the 2000s during Afghanistan’s struggle.
He said, “At that time a lot of senior military people believed that Peacekipping is not what we should do,” he said. “I don’t know much about after Afghanistan, but I think this attitude is probably moving forward.”