An article in the Toronto Star today said:

"On Tuesday, Canada officially ended its combat mission in Afghanistan. It should never have started..."

And here is the rest of the article:

A brutal, pointless war.

The concluding sentences of Walkom's column are...

We talk about the nobility of sacrifice but our motives were not noble. We sent our soldiers to die in Kandahar mainly to impress our largest trading partner, the U.S., and ensure that the border stayed open for trade.

Canadians were killed to guarantee just-in-time delivery of auto parts. That is not sufficient reason.