Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper asserted on Monday that the US-led coalition's campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was not going as well as hoped and that a "long and sustained strategy" was needed.
"The intervention has had the effect of largely stopping the advance of ISIS, particularly in the north of Iraq and to some degree in other parts of Iraq and Syria, not maybe as much as we'd liked," Harper told reporters during an event on Canada's election campaign.
"To protect our country we are going to have to have a long and sustained strategy and work with our international partners and that is what we are doing," Harper added.