Mr. Speaker, the government is putting the lives of our soldiers in Iraq at risk by publishing photos of their faces.
The minister does not think that there was anything wrong with publishing the photos because the defence staff approved it. However, in the same type of photos authorized by the same defence staff a year earlier, the soldiers' faces were blurred out. The minister's explanation therefore does not make any sense, particularly since we have learned through the Ottawa Citizen that operational security was put aside for public relations value.
Will the government do the right thing and admit that it made a mistake?