Iraq and Harjit Sajjan

Conservative government: Harjit Sajjan said in an interview that Canada will pull out its fighter jets from Iraq in a "responsible manner." Last year, the Conservative government passed a motion in the Commons seeking authorization to conduct airstrikes in Iraq and Syria until March 30, 2016. "Right now, we are assessing various options for when that capability can be mitigated," Sajjan said, according to Huffington Post Canada. During the fall election campaign, the Liberals promised to "end Canada combat mission in Iraq" and "refocus" the military contribution towards training local forces and providing more humanitarian support. Harjit Sajjan, a former Vancouver police detective and lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Forces, told The Huffington Post Canada in a year-end interview that the six CF-18s will be out in "less than six months," but he wouldn't pledge to pull them out within three months. But despite the Liberals' victory on Oct. 19, the CF-18s' sorties have continued. On Wednesday, two CF-18s were helpful in re-establishing a position held by Kurdish forces after a major attack by several hundred ISIL fighters. This weekend, the military reported that two of its jets successfully struck an ISIL fighting position north of Al Kuwayr as well as a fighting position northwest of Mosul. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.