Posted AT 7:38 AM EDT on 26/03/08
How Stephen Harper snookered Stéphane Dion
The House of Commons voted on March 13 to keep Canadian troops in Kandahar until the end of 2011. The vote was 198-77, the Liberals aligning themselves with the government. So the issue is decided and, beginning in January of 2012, Canada will be out of the long war against the Taliban. Or will we?
Sometimes, politicians plot and connive and, sometimes, they make mistakes out of naiveté and a want of guile.
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