Mr. Speaker, the Minister of National Defence and PMO officials have stated that Canada will continue training the army and the police forces in Afghanistan post-2011 but end combat operations.
Now, General Hillier tells us:
If you stay in the south and try to do something like training, you will still be in combat. I don't care what...staffers say in the media about how they can find a way to do it. You simply will not. You will be in combat.
The question, obviously, is: Who do we believe? Do we believe the government and its spin doctors or do we believe the general?