Harper’s decision to ‘cut and run’ from Afghanistan ‘left me ashamed and very close to resignation’: former Conservative MP Alexander

But Rachel Curran, a senior political aide to former prime minister Stephen Harper says the Conservatives campaigned on the promise in the 2011 election that the Afghanistan mission would ‘begin winding down' the same year.

Chris Alexander, left, Maxime Bernier, and Andrew Scheer, pictured in 2016, campaigning for the Conservatieve Party's leaderhsip. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY ABBAS RANA

October 22, 2018

Former Conservative cabinet minister Chris Alexander says he was “ashamed” and considered resigning from federal politics in 2012 after then prime minister Stephen Harper had first pledged not to “cut and run” from Canada's mission in Afghanistan in 2006, but later did “precisely that." �...

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