Canada and Afghanistan iii

Parliament is the legislative branch in Canada. Sure, there have been minority governments since 2004. It hasn't stopped Prime Minister Martin from commiting troops to Kandahar Province. No amount of debate will change that unless Parliament witholds budgetary estimates and stops funding the Canadian operation in Afghanistan. By the way, when there had to be military deployment in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean tsunami or Pakistan after the Kashmir earthquake, there wasn't any parliamentary debate.