Muclair Says Harper Misled Canada about Iraq Mission

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The NDP and opposition leader of the House, Thomas Mulcair, has openly accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of having had lied to Canadians about the reality of the military mission against the Islamic State in Iraq. During a news conference at a daycare centre in Toronto on Tuesday, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair alleged that the statement issued by the arms forces conflicts with Mr. Harper’s comments in the House when the mission was up for debate and a vote last fall.

According to a statement issued by The Canadian Forces on Monday, it was revealed that there were troops on the ground to locate targets for air strikes and often had to use snipers to fend off enemy attacks at the front lines. Mr. Mulcair alleged that “Mr. Harper cannot get away with telling Canadians ‘There will be no combat by our troops,’ and then try to explain away the fact they are of course involved in combat.” He alleged that “he was asked those specific questions by me, in September, and he told Canadians they would not be involved in combat. He did not tell the truth.”

The Canadian government has so far persistently stated that there are only 70 Canadian Special Forces soldiers in northern Iraq serving as military advisers to Kurdish peshmerga in a non-combat role. In addition to that, six Canadian CF-18 jets are part of a combat mission in Iraq. Commander of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Brigadier-General Mike Rouleau, mentioned on Monday that soldiers have directed air strikes against ground targets 13 times in the past seven or eight weeks, which means guiding attacks by methods such as “marking the target with a laser so the bomb hits precisely where you want it to hit.”

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