Mr. Speaker, if the member were to go onto National Newswatch right now, he would see an interesting article. The article headline is “Syrian airstrikes could help Al-Qaeda”, which I thought was an interesting headline.
Like ISIL, Al-Qaeda was, and still is, a threat to the world in terms of its terrorist behaviour. I would ask the hon. member to provide a comment on that.
Second, over the last number of years, Syria has literally had almost half of its population displaced because of the current regime. To what degree does the hon. member believe that the Government of Canada has done its homework in regard to everything from the compassionate side of dealing with refugees to the issue on which I posed a question to the member and his caucus earlier with regard to how we might be able to best fight ISIL? One of the ways might be to better support the Kurds.