Nobody doubts the professionalism of Canadians who are involved in this process, but the problem is the will to fight.
We train, if not the ghost soldiers who are at home...we place a lot of taxpayers' money into training Iraqi forces. We were told that a specific weapons system needed years of training and it was taxpayers' money that went toward that training. Then we do have ISIS forces who are able to turn around those guns and use them against the Iraqi army within a week.
Nobody doubts their professionalism, but certainly before you put Canadians there, and before you invest resources, you have to make sure there is a will to fight on the part of these men. Even more importantly, that they do not then start to terrorize their own population as they often did in the areas that are now controlled by the Islamic State.
It was the Iraqi army that set up checkpoints around their population, probably to pay the general who had recruited them in the first place.
The professionalism of Canadian forces is beyond doubt, but we need to put them in a position to be effective.