Dan Vandal on Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL

In the House of Commons on February 23rd, 2016. See this statement in context.

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISILGovernment Orders

February 23rd, 2016 / 1:05 p.m.

Liberal

Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB

Mr. Speaker, it is actually quite interesting, the number of people I meet who were born at the St. Boniface Hospital.

As I previously stated, one of the things we are immediately doing is increasing the number of soldiers in the area by 200. We are tripling the size of the train, advise, and assist mission to train local Iraqi soldiers to actually fight the wars in their homeland. That is really the major difference.

We do not want to send 100,000 soldiers or 150,000 soldiers, as we did to Afghanistan. We want to train the local forces. We are tripling the size of the train, advise, and assist mission to achieve just that.

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