Peter MacKay ventures that Canadian troops will be in Afghanistan after 2011.
Peter MacKay ventures that Canadian troops will be in Afghanistan after 2011.
Canada’s troops will stay in Afghanistan even after the combat mission ends in 2011, Defence Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons defence committee Thursday in Ottawa.
It is the second time in as many weeks that MacKay has raised the issue, which appears to contradict repeated statements by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that Canada will pull its troops out of Afghanistan by 2011.
John Geddes’ analysis is once more relevant.