Mr. Speaker, the minister is not listening to our coalition partners. Nobody can believe him anymore.
Let me read a direct quote from the foreign minister of the Kurdish regional government. In November 2015, he said:
We would like to tell [Canada] that the air strikes have been effective.... They have saved lives. They have helped destroy the enemy.
...if it were for us [to decide], we request that to continue.
Only in the defence minister's fairytale land of alternative facts could this be interpreted as support.
Why is the defence minister blatantly misleading Canadians yet again?