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Conservative leader Rona Ambrose accused the Liberals of misleading Canadians after the Ottawa Citizen revealed details about Canadian special forces being involved in a new offensive against the Islamic State in Iraq.

Ambrose said the details in the article published Wednesday directly contradict Trudeau’s claims that Canada is only conducting training in Iraq. “How can the Prime Minister claim this is just a training mission when our troops are under fire?,” she asked Wednesday in the Commons. “Make no mistake, if our troops come under fire, they should always respond with overwhelming force but what the government should not do is mislead Canadians about the nature of the mission. It is more dangerous and it is combat.”

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“Is the Prime Minister finally prepared to admit that Canada’s mission in Iraq is combat?” Ambrose added.

But Trudeau maintained that the “mission in Iraq is support and assist. It is focused on training. It is not a direct combat mission. It is not a combat mission, it is focused on empowering local troops to counter ISIL.”