{"id":6227,"date":"2015-03-05T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2015-03-05T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:21:46","slug":"rob-nicholson-says-canadas-commitment-to-iraq-will-be-similar-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6227","title":{"rendered":"Rob Nicholson Says Canada&#8217;s Commitment To Iraq Will Be Similar To Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2015\/03\/05\/canada-isis-mission-iraq-rob-nicholson_n_6810702.html?utm_hp_ref=canada\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Nicholson Says Canada&#8217;s Commitment To Iraq Will Be Similar To Afghanistan<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Canada could be active in Iraq for the next decade as the war against ISIL continues and the region needs rebuilding, Canada\u2019s foreign affairs minister suggested Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re in this for the longer term to make sure that we do what we can to help,&#8221; Rob Nicholson told reporters during a phone call from Amman, Jordan, after completing a secret trip to the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s similar to what we did in Afghanistan for instance,\u201d he elaborated when asked by The Huffington Post Canada. \u201cWe were in Afghanistan, but we indicated that we would continue our assistance, and we have in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s military mission in Afghanistan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forces.gc.ca\/en\/operations-abroad-past\/afg-timeline.page\" target=\"_hplink\">lasted 12 years<\/a>\u00a0but<a href=\"http:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/afghanistan\/index.aspx?lang=eng\" target=\"_hplink\">development assistance has continued<\/a>past the Canadian Forces\u2019 pullout in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the military, it has to be a bigger picture in terms of what the solutions are,\u201d Nicholson said, referring to continued humanitarian assistance. Canada has so far pledged<a href=\"http:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/international\/iraq.aspx?lang=eng\" target=\"_hplink\">$100 million to Iraq<\/a>\u00a0in humanitarian stabilization and security programming, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is going to continue. We\u2019ve made that very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Nicholson Says Canada&#8217;s Commitment To Iraq Will Be Similar To Afghanistan OTTAWA \u2014 Canada could be active in Iraq for the next decade as the war against ISIL continues and the region needs rebuilding, Canada\u2019s foreign affairs minister suggested Thursday. \u201cWe&#8217;re in this for the longer term to make sure that we do what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,103,442,1239,445,447,525,3940],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-canada","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isil","tag-islamic-state","tag-military","tag-rob-nicholson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}