Canadian parliament could get busier than usual next week as it starts to debate about the importance and necessity of extending as well as expanding the country’s military mission in Iraq. The House of Commons could expect to receive a motion next week.

The house is expected to undergo a highly-charged debate on the matter since the New Democrats and Liberals have already expressed skepticism about how the government carried out the initial deployment of 69 special forces whose task was just to train and assist northern Iraq's Kurdish forces. But it was later learned this wasn’t the case as the troops have been on more than two instances got engaged on the frontlines with the enemy. This scenario has even led to the death of one and the injury of three other special forces who were mistakenly took to the ISIS Daesh fighters.

Rob Nicholson, Foreign Affairs Minister, said it is imperative for Canada to extend and even expand its military mission in Iraq because the existence of the ISIS Daesh extremists pose not only a real danger to the region but also a direct threat to Canada and its allies. Canada’s participation into the military mission against the radical extremists started in November when Canadian war planes joined US-led airstrikes against the ISIS.

Nicholson said it is not so much that a majority just approves the extension. He implied it would be best that all political parties “come together as Canadians” and support the extended mission. If it were totally up to the NDP and Liberals, they prefer just sending humanitarian aid.

Paul Dewar, NDP foreign affairs, said gaining the approval of the House of Commons for the second time around could get hard because the Harper government has a lot of explaining to do first. "There is so little definition as to what our role is there, our strategy is," Dewar told the Canadian Press. "They have to explain how it is that Canada has ended up on the front lines of this war when we weren't involved in the original 2003 invasion of Iraq." Dewar called for more transparency about what the soon to get expired military mission really entails.

Canada’s current mission will end on April 1. In February, Defence Minister Jason Kenney said Canada’s six-month mission in Iraq under the U.S-led coalition has cost taxpayers’ money estimated at about $122 million. As of March 16, Canada’s CF-18 fighters had flown 412 sorties.

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