You can be absolutely  certain  if there was a reasonably large Canadian Mali diaspora who continually lobbied all three political parties for preferential treatment, who have influence over aid allocation and trade relations and who have their interests served through a handful of strident MPs, Senators and even a foreign minister whose family came from the country (even if the family might have ties to evil doers) .....

Then yes we would definitely be sending troops to Mali - heck we might even be giving sizeable loans, a free trade agreement and maybe even a military training programme to Mali while ignoring  its deep seated corruption and political and economic failures but....

As it stands there is no large Mali diaspora to push self serving politicians in favour of one  direction over another

Mali is   just another African country of little importance  to those Canadian politicians in power who believe their interests are best served by satisfying domestic constituencies