Mel Arnold on Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL

In the House of Commons on February 24th, 2016. See this statement in context.

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISILGovernment Orders

February 24th, 2016 / 3:55 p.m.

Conservative

Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC

Madam Speaker, the mission to this point had been effective in cutting off the flow of money to the ISIS fighters.

We all know that they were selling their oil or stolen oil on the black market. Our fighters and the coalition fighters were very effective in taking out those oil trucks, those supply depots, that were supplying the oil that was funding this process.

We are supportive of increasing the effort against ISIS, but we are simply opposed to the government's withdrawal of the CF-18s as one of the most effective parts of that fight.

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