Hamilton

Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

A second look at a legendary Canadian political figure and his foreign policy.

6:00pm
- 8:00pm
Tuesday March 6 2012

Are we peacekeepers? In his new book, Canadian author Yves Engler takes a second look at legendary Canadian political figure Lester B. Pearson and his foreign policy.

Although Canada is moving away from the peacekeeping doctrine, Engler's provocative new book suggests that Canada did not engage in pure peacekeeping since the end of World War II, but instead acted to support U.S. aims in the Cold War.

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About Yves

Dubbed “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” (Briarpatch), “in the mould of I. F. Stone” (Globe and Mail), "ever-insightful" (rabble.ca) and a "Leftist gadfly" (Ottawa Citizen), Yves Engler’s five previous books have been praised by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others.