No clear objective for Canada in Iraq

Staying until 2019 and training 'new potential partners' is no substitute for planning or defining what victory would look like.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan speaks to a Canadian Armed Forces member during a visit to Kuwait in December 2016. Operation Impact, intended to fight Daesh in Iraq, is based largely in Kuwait.Photograph courtesy of the Department of National Defence

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

July 5, 2017

OTTAWA—Last Thursday the Liberal government gave Canadians a pre-Canada Day gift in the form of an update on our military role in Iraq. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the extension of the Canadian Armed Forces’ “advise and assist” miss...

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