Nato Attack Canada

The Canadian Armed Forces later got involved due to the attacks on September 11, 2001. It was on that day when four passenger planes were hijacked. A number of terrorists took over the planes over the eastern United States. Two of these planes were flown into the Twin towers, another was flown into the Pentagon, and the fourth plane crashed in a farmer’s field. These attacks greatly affected the United States and many other countries. Canada, having lost 24 Canadians in the attacks would soon join in the efforts to battle terrorism and bring democracy to Afghanistan.

Han Seung-soo, the president of the General Assembly at the time announced that the 9/11 attacks threatened international peace. Therefore, the UN allowed NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to organize a mission starting in 2001. The treaty that had created
Canada needed to show its support to the organization and had also lost 24 Canadians in the attacks. Although 59% of Canadian opposed sending troops to Afghanistan the government still went through with it. Being a country with a smaller military we need support from other countries if we were to ever be attacked by another country. NATO is something that we need to be big supporters of in order to be a part of it. Domestic policy is also very important yet, in this case, they had to make a choice and Parliament decided foreign policy was more important in this case. In Canada’s foreign it even says, “The promotion and protection of human rights is an integral part of Canadian foreign policy.” Canada didn’t only get involved because of NATO, in addition, they went to protect the Afghans’ human rights. Human rights are something that Canada feels is very important, they want everyone to have rights like we do in Canada. It is also mentioned in our foreign policy that Canada wants to help create international