Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe is calling for an emergency debate on the direction Canada’s foreign policy is taking — including whether Ottawa should pull its troops from Afghanistan.
He said there’s a growing feeling among Quebeckers that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is moving in lockstep with U.S. President George W. Bush on foreign policy, from Israel to Afghanistan.
“I think they have more and more the impression that Harper is taking the same alignment that Bush is taking, and they are firmly against that,” Mr. Duceppe said in an interview as the death toll of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan reached 32.
Note the real problem — aligning with the USA on foreign policy. The actual details, consequences and benefits? Trivia!