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Perspective with Alison Smith
Canada's Role in Iraq - March 26, 2017
This week on Perspective with Alison Smith: Iraq – Canada’s role in a country in conflict. Alison speaks to Derek Stoffel, CBC's Middle East correspondent, who has just returned from covering the conflict in Mosul, Iraq. Brigadier-General Daniel MacIsaac, Commander of Joint Task Force-Iraq, talks to Alison from an airbase in Kuwait about the role of the Canadian Forces in the battle against ISIS in Iraq. Sally Armstrong, journalist and human rights advocate who has just returned from Iraq, speaks to Alison about ISIS' campaign to eradicate the Yazidi peoples in Iraq. Finally, Alison speaks to Zaid al-Ali, author of "The Struggle for Iraq's Future," from Tunis, about the future of Iraq once the city of Mosul has been liberated from ISIS control.