Six ways a Canadian ends up working inside another state's war.
None of these is a scandal on its own. Together they are how a middle power participates in the use of force without any of the acts that would look like participating. Tap a row for whose orders that person takes, what authorises the arrangement, and what it tells the public.
The colour is the definition talking, not this file. Choosing a standard is not a ruling and none is issued here. Only the first standard on the list has ever been applied to these arrangements by the body that holds the records, and it placed all six outside.
Nine things that might reasonably oblige a government to account for where its people are and what they are doing. Tap each one for what stands in its place.
Deployment votes do happen. They happen when a government wants an endorsement, they are not required, and the first one was called non-binding by the Prime Minister who called it. A practice that operates at the discretion of the person it constrains is not a constraint.
What the placements plug into.
Canada is not adjacent to this structure. It is inside it, at six layers, under five different kinds of instrument, only one of which is a public treaty.
Nine years, three theatres, one sentence.
Each instance shows what was said and what was refused. The second one is opened up, because it is the only one where a government document described the work in detail, and that document was a decoration citation.
Nine rungs between a cabinet and a trigger.
Every denial on this page is a claim about specific rungs. Read down and see which ones it reaches, and which ones nobody has spoken to.
Every statement, dated, with what it leaves open.
Nine years of them. Tap an entry for the two columns: what it asserts, and what it does not reach.
Questions with answers in a filing cabinet.
None of these is rhetorical. Each one names the document or the answer that would close it.
Thirty nine sources, graded.
Nothing on this page carries a status without naming at least one of these. The build refuses to run and writes nothing if that is ever false. Each entry shows how many claims rest on it.
Get told when the record changes.
This file updates when a statement is made, a request is answered, a placement changes or a rung gets lit. Leave an address and it goes on the list. Nothing is sent automatically.
