Leader Tom Mulcair and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The special after-hours session, which did not include a vote, was triggered by a request submitted by Liberal foreign affairs critic Marc Garneau last week. , according to CBC. Before the debate, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair did manage to get the government to reveal the scope of the current deployment 69 special advisers in a response by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in question period Tuesday. Kady O'Malley followed a lively debate in parliament Tuesday night, as MPs got a chance to put their thoughts on Canada response to the conflict in Iraq on the official parliamentary record during an emergency debate in the House. 'We have a problem': The challenges of building an anti-coalition The debate got underway around 6:30 p.m. ET, and was expected to continue until midnight, depending on how many MPs want to speak. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.