The Canadian military objective is inside a whole-of-government approach that speaks to wider national goals. It's difficult to pick one from another. Canada has, as has been well described by Ms. Buck, a whole-of-government comprehensive approach. Tying the Canadian military contribution as part of that whole-of-government approach to the military campaign at present is specifically designed to ensure the French are able to build up their forces rapidly to be able to conduct the operations they have been able to do.
They've been successful because they've been able to bring to bear an overmatched capacity against the Islamist rebels as a result of the international community and Canada bringing the equipment and materiel to bear rapidly so they could do that.