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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Wednesday accused the Prime Minister of putting himself “at the service of a bloody dictator.”

International attention on Wednesday was trained squarely on Kobani, the Syrian border town where U.S. air strikes targeted ISIS fighters on Wednesday. And Mr. Mulcair wanted to know whether the Conservative government plans on joining its American allies in Syria.

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The Canadian mission, approved in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, will send up to six CF-18s to Iraq for six months. But Mr. Harper has said the mission could be extended to Syria, should Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime approve.

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“The Prime Minister is volunteering to bomb Assad’s enemies, but only if the dictator asks him to,” Mr. Mulcair said in question period on Wednesday.

U.S. and coalition war planes have struggled to stop ISIS fighters from converging on the strategic town of Kobani in Syria near the Turkish border. And while air strikes managed to force some fighters out of the city, a Pentagon spokesman vented fears Wednesday that Kobani could fall to ISIS.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau asked whether the federal government was willing to commit more funding to humanitarian aid, considering the flow of thousands of refugees from Kobani.

“Let us be very clear,” Harper replied, “there can be no solution in the refugee crisis if we continue to let ISIL create millions more refugees in the region.”

With files from the Associated Press