AFP reports that Canada wants a new role in the fight against Daesh, and one that involves withdrawing it warplanes from the conflict.
On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reveal new plans for its involvement in the Syrian conflict in what International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau calls a “holistic” approach.
"We really want to announce a holistic approach, and this includes all our contributions in terms of military, in terms of diplomacy and in terms of humanitarian assistance and development," AFP quoted Bibeau as saying.
Part of the approach is to withdraw its six F18s warplanes from the US-led coalition targeting Daesh fighters in Syria, which some critics see as a symbolic blow against allied unity in the fight, but a move that the Prime Minister has been pushing for since he took office in November 2015.
The planes have been in service since late 2014, when the Canadian Parliament voted to approve the mission; however, that mission is set to end in March, and Trudeau wants the warplanes home.
Canada says it wants to put more focus on training Iraqi military troops to fight militants in Northern Iraq where it already has about 70 Canadian Special Forces who have been there since November of 2014, according to AFP.
