OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan toured the front lines in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Monday, meeting with Kurdish military commanders and Canadian special forces who repelled last week's major offensive west of Irbil.
He says the issue of the Trudeau government's plan to withdraw CF-18 fighter-bombers hasn't come up in conversations with either Iraqi officials in Baghdad, nor the Kurds.
Instead, Sajjan says they've discussed how Canada can refocus its military commitment with a beefed up training mission, and he's given some suggestions on contributions the country can make — ideas he hadn't previously considered.
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