Parliament must decide on war and peace

Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2006 and 2008 held votes in Parliament on the Afghanistan mission. It's the right way to proceed.

"Parliament will decide." Prime Minister Mackenzie King offered this dictum repeatedly almost from the time he became prime minister of Canada in the early 1920s through to the outbreak of war in September 1939. For King, that simple phrase was his way of evading commitments to Great Britain in a...

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