Canadians haven't been conditioned that Canadian forces are going to be asked to take more aggressive combat roles.

That notion (of combat) hasn't permeated broadly.

There is a fair amount of ambivalence, principally in the province of Quebec, about the whole mission and mandate.

The Tories are starting to eat away at Liberal support in key geographic regions like Southwest Ontario and Eastern Ontario. You can also say that, if the Tories continue to creep up, they'll start to win more seats.

The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.

This is a very fast, very aggressive type of combat. Israelis don't have years to train someone. In F.I.G.H.T., the first day I walk in I have the whole year planned out.