Mr. Speaker, I was not asked to participate in the multi-party mission in which the hon. member for Ottawa Centre participated. However, my understanding is that we were asked specifically for humanitarian assistance.
Could the government share with all of us in the House what analysis went into deciding that 69 advisers to a military mission was the best and most strategic way that our country could contribute to defeating ISIS? Are there not other means, and are they not potentially mutually inclusive rather than exclusive? Why are we not doing more to ensure that the voice of true Islam is heard in the region?
Could we not assist in reprogramming those who fall into the misunderstanding of religion, falling into an extremist, in fact a distortion of the worst sort, of the religion that is known as “Islam” by allowing people to believe they are experiencing or living up to or exemplifying a religion when they are in fact representing the worst distortion and bastardization of a true religion by executing innocent people through beheading? This is appalling. These people are cowards. Could we not harness more in the way to take on in even social media what it is that is attracting people to this wrong-headed version of what it is to be Islamic?