Mr. Speaker, all activities being undertaken by our special forces in Iraq fall within the advise and assist mandate given to them by our government.
We had a very good technical briefing yesterday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of National Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff. The Chief of the Defence Staff was very explicit in describing that this was not a combat mission for our ground troops.
The fact is that there is an international jihadist movement that has declared war on Canada and our allies. We must work with our allies to stop this terrorist threat. We have been clear from the start that this mission is not low risk, that it does have risk and that we have to complete our task against ISIL.