Mr. Speaker, the government will not give Canadians the straight goods on what is going on with this extension. In fact the costs have risen three times between last Tuesday and last Friday.
Now NATO is making it very clear that 2014 is not necessarily a fixed date for the withdrawal.
When we consider all the broken promises around this issue, it is clear that our troops will be staying beyond 2011 and they could be staying a heck of a lot longer, because the government has no exit strategy post-2014.
Why will the government not come clean? Why will it not allow a vote after a full debate in the House?