A far better mission for Canada would be to push Baltic states for a political settlement of their minorities and respect of the EU law while they are members of EU.

I know that is harder to do then simply sending a battalion over there but if we were trully committed to making sure no conflict would arise there we would make sure the question is solved politically.

What will that battalion do if say Latvians start throwing native Russian's out of their country in the same style Slobodan Milosevic did in Serbia? What if these minorities fight back? Will we support our Serbian stance and bomb Latvia - a NATO member? Or will we help them with a war crime? Or maybe just do nothing? If doing nothing is the way then maybe the troops are not that useful.