Future of Canada’s Middle East strategy ‘under consideration’ as it puts leadership of NATO training mission in rearview mirror

The $1.39-billion renewal of the Middle East strategy that was announced in the 2019 budget lapses at the end of the current fiscal year.

Maj.-Gen. Jennie Carignan, left, pictured on Nov. 26, 2019, taking over the command of the NATO Mission in Iraq from Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin at the Union III Military Base, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maj.-Gen. Carignan transferred command of the mission to Danish Lt.-Gen. Per Pugholm Olsen in November. Canadian Armed Forces photograph by Cpl. Ryan Moulton

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BY NEIL MOSS

December 29, 2020

As Canada looks back on the two years of commanding a NATO capacity-building mission in Iraq, which experts say had success but was overshadowed by monumental events on the ground, it now has to plan its future presence in the region. When the Liberal government came to power in 2015, it initiated ...

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