"It's the responsibility of government not to put soldiers into
harm's way except as a last resort, when it's absolutely necessary
to do so. When we do send them into harm's way we have to ensure
that we've done everything in our power to find other methods to
reach our objectives." -- Harjit Sajjan, Canada's new Minister
of National Defence, 2011-11-03, to National Observer's
Sandy Garossino for an opinion piece published 2015-11-04:
"You have no idea how badass Trudeau's Defence Minister really
is" (thanks to a couple of people for linking to it,
and
realinterrobang for
quoting this bit