Mr. Speaker, today, before the joint committee meeting on the mission in Iraq, the Chief of the Defence Staff said that he gave the order that special forces could call in air strikes at the front lines as part of the advise and assist mission. He described this as an evolution and agreed the situation had changed.
Canada is now an outlier in its operations compared with our allies.
Was the Minister of National Defence aware of this expansion of the mission and did he give his approval?