Trudeau has said we should help in various non-combat roles.
What kind of non-combat roles do you think Mr Trudeau envisions us helping with?
Labling something non-combat wouldn't remove the level of danger. On the streets over there cars are driving up to other cars and randomly shooting into them. Then dragging the passengers out and killing them.
[ graphic video of drive by shootings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrM9X3zPlc ]
Anyone delievering humanitarian aid would need to be escoerted by armed and armored force security vehicles. They may not be technically filling a combat-role (seeking out the enemy) but it's combat never the less. Canadoan advisors in Afghanistan saw a hell of a lot of combat while they were embeded with and advising the Afghan National Army.
Are we just getting wrapped around termonology and semantics at this point?
What I read into that was not a presumption that Canadians would deliver it direct to the people but rather fly it to some authority in the country. I don't think the implications are the same.
I am assuming Trudeau is favouring aid perhaps like what Canada deliverd to Ukraine. I have not heard Trudeau say he was in favur of having military advisors there as part of the aid-- did he say that?