I have consistently criticized UN peacekeepers as mere "witnesses" to slaughter, who would not act to save anyone without explicit orders, and maybe not then. Their record in Congo, Rwanda, and Bosnia doesn't speak well of them. Their usual practice is to hide until the fighting is over, and only then come out to count the bodies.
It is heartening to read that, on that day and in that place, those Canadians had the grit to act, even against orders, to save lives who were counting on them.
And in Rwanda, the UN left promptly after the Tutsis had all crowded into schools, hospitals, etc. where the UN was based, the Hutus knew exactly where to get at the Tutsis once the UN departed. There were Tutsis BEGGING the departing UN soldiers to shoot them because they preferred that over being slaughtered by machetes - the main killing tool of the Hutus. The UN wouldn't even take a pleaing woman with them on their truck - but all the pet dogs of foreigners departing were shipped out. The UN makes these massacres EASIER. The massacres and the wars happen AFTER the UN has been established in these places.
Sounds like the Canadians I've known.