Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke Member of Parliament Cheryl Gallant says keeping a close eye on military activities is difficult when no one in positions of authority ever appears to know anything.
This time the local member is trying to ferret out stories about war crime allegations involving Iraqi forces under Canadian tutelage.
The Minister of Defence couldn’t explain why expressed concerns were ignored, but Harjit Sajjan’s own Parliamentary Secretary indicates that “if the Department did not know, it sure acted like it.”
Canadian Forces are apparently no longer training the particular Iraqi Forces implicated in war crime allegations, and new rigorous screening protocols to select trainees have been implemented, but Gallant recalls that sending trainers to Iraq was a signature Trudeau foreign policy- and another demonstrated failure.
