Yesterday was International Day of UN Peacekeepers. It started me thinking about our once proud tradition for peacekeeping through UN initiatives and how little we hear about peacekeeping today. Canada has fallen from being the single largest contributor of UN Peacekeepers, a position it often held, to 58th, just behind Uganda and barely ahead of Zimbabwe. Canadian peacekeeping participation consists of 99 policemen, 37 military experts and 24 soldiers. The Green Party will re-establish Canada among the global leaders in peace building, peacekeeping and international diplomacy. Green Party MPs will push forward the re-alignment of our defence spending to increase our capacity and speed in delivering disaster assistance (through DART) and our contributions to UN Peacekeeping forces and missions and decrease our contributions to the NATO war effort. Once more we can have pride in our international reputation as peacekeepers.