Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that my colleague outlined the things that Canada is doing as far as humanitarian assistance is concerned. This is not an either/or mission. We have to do both, and we have to degrade ISIS so that we can continue to get the humanitarian assistance in there. People who live in Iraq want their own country back.
A week ago in The Economist, there was an article under “Leaders”. I want to read a little bit of this paragraph. It says:
Syria will not be pacified soon—possibly not for many years. Until that moment, IS can lurk there, controlling swathes in the east, destabilising Sunni areas of Iraq and biding its time until it has another chance to rise up.
It goes on at the end:
It would still pose a grave threat to the outside world and would need constant watching. But degradation would make it easier to contain than it is today.
I wonder if my colleague has any comments on that paragraph.