CONTRARY TO STEPHEN HARPER - WE ARE NOT O.K. WITH OUR CANADIAN FORCES EVEN BEING NEAR THE FRONT LINES AND WE WERE TOLD BY STEPHEN HARPER THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE OUR GROUND TROOPS INVOLVED AT ALL. 2015-01-27 Canadians OK with special forces firing back and killing ISIL extremists: Harper timescolonist/canadians-ok-with-special-forc… THE CANADIAN PRESS JANUARY 27, 2015 12:45 PM Prime Minister Stephen Harper answers a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his opposition rivals are offside with most Canadians when they criticize the militarys repeated firefights with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Harper is responding to question period attacks by both the NDP and Liberals, who say the Conservatives misled people about the extent to which Canadas special forces troops would be involved in combat in northern Iraq. At the outset, Harper and top military commander Gen. Tom Lawson made it clear the elite trainers would not accompany Kurdish fighters into battle, but would instead stay behind the lines to give advise and instruction. In a statement last week, Lawson said the mission had since evolved, but the prime minister brushed that contradiction aside today, saying its clear the opposition parties dont support the mission. Harper says the troops are executing the mission given to them by Parliament, and have the support of the public when they return fire, killing terrorists in the process. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says the issue is not self-defence, but whether the public believes Harper is telling the truth about what soldiers are doing. © Copyright Times Colonist
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