How would you compare today's mission to that early deployment? Has anything changed? The Canadian psyche seems to have changed; the Canadian psyche seems to think that maybe we went over there originally to be peacekeepers, and now we're involved in some heavy lifting when it comes to a military conflict. Yet your previous statement said that actually we were sent over there to root out the Taliban, to root out the insurgents, to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, so has our mission really changed at all since the first deployment?
On September 25th, 2006. See this statement in context.