Canada and Peacekeeping Efforts

Canada was influential in keeping peace:

-Lester Pearson

-urged all sides to agree to a ceasefire in the Korean War at the United Nations

-Suez Crisis resolved

-gave successful idea of sending a United Nations Emergency Force

-keep hostile forces apart with neutral third party forces

-this method used for other large-scale peacekeeping situations

-Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize

-Vietnamese War was influenced by then Prime Minister Pearson

-criticized Operation Rolling Thunder

-gave advice for the United States to get out of Vietnam

-risked physical harm by larger, more aggressive President Johnson

-criticized legitimacy of the war

-disagree with saying “better dead than red”

-refused to participate in Vietnam

-Trudeau’s foreign policy focused on making peace

-encourage friendliness over violence

-strong supporter of peaceful organizations

-was a major peacekeeping component of the United Nations

-involved in every peacekeeping effort since its creation

-military used for peace

-rarely sees action other than to be sent for peacekeeping missions

-never started any conflicts during the Cold War

Canada was not influential in keeping peace:

-provoked countries by participating in the Korean War

-part of an aggressive military alliance, NATO

-supported NATO

-participate heavily in NORAD

-allowed foreign military bases in Canada