Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the minister to comment on the statement of the Prime Minister on June 4, in which he said:
We are working according to the parliamentary resolution that was adopted in 2008 by which Canada’s military mission will end and will transition to a civilian and development mission at the end of 2011
He prefaced that by saying:
I think we’ve been very clear.
It is very clear from that statement that the military mission, not the combat mission, would end in 2011. That is what Canadians believed and now we are reinventing the past. I want the minister to acknowledge that he is reinventing the past, because Canadians were told that the military mission would end.