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OTTAWA — The Liberals and the NDP would fight insurgents overseas by doing little more than “dropping aid on dead people,” Stephen Harper said Monday as he reinforced the Conservative party’s tough-on-terror strategy.

With this week’s return of Mike Duffy promising another barrage of banner headlines and awkward campaign-trail questions, Harper struck a defiant tone as he defended putting Canada in the global fight against militants in Iraq and Syria, as well as his promise to ban travel to regions controlled by terror groups.

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The prime minister also promised to take in 10,000 more refugees from both countries over the next four years and help protect artifacts and places of worship from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

But when talk turned to Canada’s aggressive military approach, Harper’s language grew sharp as he described how ISIL was engaged in “mass slaughter at an alarming, lightning pace” when the Conservative government got involved.