One can only hope that political pressure back home continues to thwart his idea of sending Canadian "peacekeepers" to Africa to actively fight in an insurgency.

PM Pearson was essentially awarded  the Nobel for keeping the peace between the France, UK, and Israel who found themselves on opposite sides with the US over the nationalization of the Suez Canal. Did anyone seriously think that these countries would wage war against each other?

Canada's Liberal foreign policy since 1956 was built upon a myth. It allowed Canada to contract out our national defence to the US with minimal cost to Canadian taxpayers.