SUMMARY

This bill provides for a process to subject the involvement of Canadian Forces in international peacekeeping missions to parliamentary control, to limit it to a neutral or non-combatant role and to control the placing of Canadian Forces under UN or other non-Canadian command.

The bill subjects every separate mission to a specific time and expenditure limit approved by the House of Commons after debate.

The bill ensures that peacekeeping is authorized by the process described in it and not through an active service initiation under the National Defence Act. However, it also ensures that those serving in peacekeeping missions have the same administrative treatment with respect to discipline, service credits and benefits under that Act as if they were on active service.