Canada's national defence critic isn't pleased with today's announcement regarding the countries involvement in the fight against ISIS. It was announced today the Liberal government intends to pulls CF-18s out of Iraq and Syria by February 22nd, but intends to increase the number of troops working to train Kurdish fighters. Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman MP James Bezan says while they support additional training efforts, they oppose ceasing the air strikes.

"We've said from the start that we'd support a more robust training mission, but let's be perfectly clear, the announcement made today is meant to be a distraction for Canadians who have overwhelmingly supported the air combat mission."

During the announcement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated reason, rather than hatred, is the enemy of these barbaric acts. Bezan says that's definitely not the case with the Islamic State Militants.

"If he actually believes that, I invite him to sit down with ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. To sit down with the ISIS terrorist leader, and try to reason with him. We know ISIS can't be reasoned with. We've had diplomats, journalists, and foreign aid workers who've tried to reason their way out of being held hostage, but were ultimately assassinated."

He says the decision goes against not only the feeling of many Canadians, but also against Canada's Allies. Bezan says they're already hearing concerns about the government pulling CF-18s out of action.

"We've heard from our allies that they're pretty upset that Canada is trying to do less, that we're not shouldering our fair share of the workload in fighting ISIS and stopping the spread of the radicalized Islamic ideology that they have. It doesn't bode well in us being part of the decision making process on what next steps need to take place."

He says while the issue will be debated in the House of Commons, the Liberals seem fairly immovable in their plans to cease air strikes.