National Defence committee  On the ground the Canadian Armed Forces, in Operation Impact, don't have responsibility for a geographical area or a functional area. We're not in charge of fires for the whole coalition. We don't have to look after Anbar province. It's not structured that way, so we're working o

National Defence committee  No, sir. You're obviously very au fait in what's happening there. There's nothing that jumps to mind beyond what I said about being very concerned about that particular group.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. It's a very topical question. One thing I'm seized with is the information theatre being the central theatre of conflict, essentially, in a way that it wasn't even 20 or 30 years ago. While I didn't say anything in my opening comments about countering

National Defence committee  This is not specific to Iraq, but four or five days ago I instituted for my command, which includes all deployed operations, very stringent mitigation measures. For example, all non-essential travel that's not directly related to a core mission's output is cancelled until further