Canada's Role in the Fight Against Isis

The victory of the Liberal Party of Canada on October 19th, 2015 was meant to be a new beginning for the country with new policies and new projects that the Conservative government with Stephen Harper failed to achieve; one of them being the military role of Canada in the fight against ISIS. The Conservative Party ideology was to keep the military in their initial role of combat and increase the air force in order to be more effective on the ground. However, the Liberal party made several promises in order to get elected, such as the plan of removing the combat role of the military forces from Iraq and Syria and to use a more peaceful and humanitarian approach. In doing so, Canada sees itself as being less defensive, more helpful, and more focused on helping rather than destructing.
In the 2015 national election, the Liberal Party of Canada promised to use quite a different approach than the conservatives to fight the so called Islamic State. Their plan was not based on the combat role of the military as the conservatives did for several years but more on its capability on providing humanitarian help (Dummett, 2016, Para. 2). Prime Minister Trudeau wishes to remove the CF-18 fighter jets, stop the airstrikes on Iraq and Syria as well as focusing more on the intelligence and security training of the troops (Blanchfield, 2016, Para 3). The Prime Minister, insisted on the fact that, Canada has always had a good reputation for providing help to other countries in times of need, and that bombing areas in those already torn countries won’t help solving the war against terrorism, and will not stop ISIS from perpetuating their fear and propaganda (Smith, 2016, Para 5). He said: “Training is something we do very, very well, and that’s something we’re looking to be very helpful to other members of the coalition with, to make sure Canada is doing more than its part in the war against ISIS.” (Geddes, J., Markusoff, J., & Wells, P., 2015, Para 2). Rather than bombing and...