Canada’s Iraq conundrum
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised a lot of eyebrows when just hours after the bloody attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and turned the world’s attention squarely on fighting ISIS, he stuck by his election promise to not only end Canada’s bombing mission in Iraq and Syria, but pull out the Canadian fighter jets […]Levon Sevunts reports for Radio Canada International :
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised a lot of eyebrows when just hours after the bloody attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and turned the world’s attention squarely on fighting ISIS, he stuck by his election promise to not only end Canada’s bombing mission in Iraq and Syria, but pull out the Canadian fighter jets before the March 2016 deadline authorized by the previous Conservative government.
“In the aftermath of the Paris attacks and with the Liberal government now having a very comfortable majority running the Canadian government, I thought the appropriate thing would have been to rethink that policy,” said Wesley Wark, a leading Canadian expert on national security and terrorism.
