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What does it mean?
Canada should deploy medical, police, and infrastructure experts to Iraq urgently.
In plain terms
Canada needs to send doctors, police, and builders to Iraq now.
What can you take from it?
Immediate international aid is needed for Iraq's reconstruction.

Where it applies

  • foreign policy
  • crisis response
  • nation building

Putting it to work

  • deploy aid workers
  • support reconstruction

Questions to consider

  • What role should Canada play abroad?
  • How do we balance aid with safety?

Another view

Deployment without clear security strategy can endanger aid workers.

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