OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau says MPs will get a chance to debate the Liberal government’s plan to send Canadian troops on UN peacekeeping missions, but he won’t quite promise a vote on any future deployment.
The prime minister tells The Canadian Press it’s important that Canadians understand why the government is signing onto a specific mission, and what it hopes to accomplish by putting troops in harm’s way.
But while leaving the door open to a possible vote, he also says he wouldn’t want to bog down the House of Commons with votes on a bunch of small missions — if that’s …read more
Source: National Newswatch
