Summarised by Centrist
The United Nations (UN) may have been formed to keep the peace, but according to Canadian columnist Herb Pinder, its involvement in issues like immigration, support for Hamas, the World Health Organization’s role during COVID, and climate change debates are contributing to divisions both between and within countries.
Pinder argues that the UN has expanded its reach far beyond its original mandate to maintain international peace and security.
“The United Nations has become a colossus,” he writes, and that:
“A broader mandate (enabled by legislation or not) leads to a bigger office, more compensation, and enhanced prestige. In the case of the UN, the creep has become a gallop.”
It now involves itself in a wide array of global issues, from sustainable development to gender equality, which Pinder argues reflects a progressive bias.
Pinder also questions the increasing influence of the UN on domestic policies in Western democracies and the progressive agenda promoted by Secretary-General António Guterres, a self-identified socialist.
He asks: “Do we in Canada, as well as other Western democracies, need an organization created to promote peace, to increasingly interfere with, and direct our policies? Who in Canada is against gender equality, for example, and why is it the business of the United Nations?”
