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The Conservatives continued to hammer the NDP Friday for its non-support for Canada’s military mission against Nazi Germany in the Second World War, despite the fact the party didn’t exist at the time.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper twice admonished NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair this week for questions on an possible extension to the Afghanistan mission by saying the NDP didn’t even support the fight against Hitler.

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Foreign Minister John Baird and Conservative backbencher Scott Armstrong repeated the reference again Friday in the House of Commons.

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“The NDP don’t support sending troops abroad for anything,” Baird said during Friday morning’s question period. “Let us look at what the former leader of the NDP-CCF when he said the following. ‘I would ask whether we are to risk the lives of our Canadian sons to prevent the actions of Hitler.’ You know who said that, it was the former leader of the NDP-CCF, J.S. Woodsworth.”