The recent vote in Canada’s House of Commons to keep our troops in Afghanistan for three more years hasn’t improved public support for the mission, according to one poll released last week. Despite a joint Conservative government - Liberal opposition compromise on the resolution, 58% of the survey’s respondents opposed the decision. And 61% said the government has done a poor job of explaining why we are there.

As I’ve said before, Prime Minister Harper should stop waving the Manley report around and start talking like John Manley, the former Liberal cabinet minister who chaired the independent study which recommended both the extension and better communication about why rebuilding Afghanistan is important.

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