The Conservative government is hiding details of the Afghanistan mission from Canadians once again.
On Tuesday, the Department of National Defence extended an invitation to representatives from all Opposition parties to accompany Minister MacKay to the meetings in Bucharest beginning April 2, 2008. Yesterday, those invitations were rescinded, with National Defence officials claiming NATO had restricted the size of Canada’s delegation to the meetings, a claim that has been rejected by a NATO spokesperson.
One of the key recommendations made in the report of the independent panel studying the future of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan was for the government to increase the transparency of its actions with respect to the mission, a recommendation that this government is once again ignoring.
