Canada and Libya By Yves Engler http://mostlywater.org/canada_and_libya

Would Stephen Harper attack Libya simply to justify spending tens of billions of dollars on F-35 fighter jets? Perhaps. But, add on doing it for major Canadian investors, reinforcing his “principled” foreign policy rhetoric and reasserting Western control over a region in flux and you pretty much have the range of reasons why a half dozen CF-18s, four other military aircraft and a 240 personnel naval frigate are currently engaged in combat 10,000 km away from Canadian soil.