Mr. Speaker, the minister and the Prime Minister are refusing to tell us where these soldiers are because they want to keep it from journalists. They want to hide what they are doing and their level of involvement. They also want to keep it from the public.
They are preventing journalists from doing their job. Given that the government said that Canada was not taking part in the war, having reporters following soldiers into battle and in combat units over there would make the government very vulnerable. It would embarrass the government, which has said that it was not going to war.
Today we have proof that soldiers are in Iraq and that the government wants to prevent journalists from finding out about it.