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Intelligence officer and ex-diplomat Richard Colvin, right, arrives at a commons special committee on Afghanistan hears witnesses on transfer of Afghan detainees on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., on Wednesday November 18, 2009.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Sapper Steven Marshall, 24, was killed while on foot patrol in Panjwai district in Kandahar province.

DND

Canadian Lt. Justin Boyes is shown in a military handout photo. Lt. Boyes, 26, of 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry based in Edmonton, Alta., was killed when his foot patrol was struck by an improvised explosive device 20 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Department of National Defence-Sgt.Daren Kraus

Rick Hillier says he argued for Canada to take over responsibility for the reconstruction of the airport in Kabul.

AP

Cpl. Matthew Wilcox, the 24-year-old soldier from Glace Bay, N.S., who was convicted in July of criminal negligence causing death and neglect of duty, is framed by a railing as he is escorted from his sentencing hearing in Sydney, N.S. on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. Cpl. Kevin Megeney of Stellarton, N.S. was shot in his tent in Kandahar in March of 2007.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

The parents of Cpl. Kevin Megeney, Karen and Dexter Megeney enter the courtroom at the Victoria Park Garrison Tuesday, Sept.29, 2009 to hear the sentencing of Cpl. Matthew Wilcox. Wilcox has been found guilty of criminal negligence causing death and negligent performance of a military duty for the fatal shooting of Cpl. Megeney in March of 2007 in Afghanistan.Sentencing was postponed until Wednesday after morning proceedings Tuesday.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Vaughan Merchant

Relatives of Cpl. Matthew Wilcox, the 24-year-old soldier from Glace Bay, N.S., who was convicted in July of criminal negligence causing death and neglect of duty, heads from his sentencing hearing after his mother, Ann Wilcox, testified in Sydney, N.S. on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. Cpl. Kevin Megeney of Stellarton, N.S. was shot in his tent in Kandahar in March of 2007.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Cpl. Matthew Wilcox, the 24-year-old soldier from Glace Bay, N.S., who was convicted in July of criminal negligence causing death and neglect of duty, arrives at his sentencing hearing in Sydney, N.S. on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. Cpl. Kevin Megeney of Stellarton, N.S. was shot in his tent in Kandahar in March of 2007.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Pte. Jonathan Couturier, 23, has been identified as the victim of an IED strike southwest of Kandahar city. Couturier, 23, a member of 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Regiment, based in Valcartier, Que., was killed when his vehicle detonated an improvised explosive device some 25 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city.

DND/Canadian Press

This undated photo of Pte. Patrick Lormand, 21, who was killed by an IED strike southwest of Kandahar city on Sept. 13, 2009. Lormand, of the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment was killed and four others were injured in a roadside IED blast approximately 13 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/ HO- DND

British singer Leona Lewis arrives at the 2009 MTV European Music Awards in Berlin, Thursday Nov. 5, 2009.

AP Photo/Joel Ryan

Hertha BSC player Marc Stein, right, grabs the head of Heerenveen player Oussama Assaidi, left, during their group D Europa League soccer match at Abe Lenstra stadium in Heerenveen, northern Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

AP Photo/Peter Dejong

Brazilian-made Tucanos surround Israeli-made Kfirs during an aerial exhibition to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Colombia's Air Force in Bogota, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Boston Bruins right wing Blake Wheeler goes airborne as he tries to keep control of the puck against the Montreal Canadiens in the third period of their NHL hockey game in Boston, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. The Canadiens defeated the Bruins 2-1 in a shootout.

AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Air Force officers are reflected in a puddle during a military ceremony to celebrate the 90 th anniversary of Colombia's Air Force in Bogota, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, pose for an official photo with soldiers from the Royal Canadian Regiment following a Colour Ceremony in Toronto on Thursday November 5, 2009.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

A model gets prepared to go on the catwalk ahead of the Mao Geping Image Design Art School release at China's Fashion week in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel

A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy.

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

The wreckage of the Cougar Helicopter flight 491 is displayed to the media in St. John's Thursday, March 26, 2009. The sole survivor of a helicopter crash that killed 17 off the coast of Newfoundland this spring said he doesn't remember the moment the chopper hit the water. "Next thing I remember, I was waking up in a submerged helicopter," Robert Decker told an inquiry into helicopter safety begin held in St. John's Thursday. "It instantly filled with water. It was dark but you could see the lights of the passengers' suits."

The Canadian Press/CBC News

Trabant cars of the sightseeing company 'Trabi Safari' wait next to the East Side Gallery, a remaining segment of the Wall in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. The company which uses only former East German Trabant cars for their trips promoted their latest tour 'The Wall Ride' on Wednesday, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski

Ampoules of swine flu (H1N1) vaccine are seen during a clinic for first responders at the Winchester Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

AP

An ampoule of swine flu (H1N1) vaccine during a clinic for first responders at the Winchester Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 in Winchester, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Firefighter Paramedic Chuck Rivanis holds back his sleeve as he is injected with the Swine Flu vaccine through his tattoo during a clinic for first responders at the Winchester Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 in Winchester, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Firefighter Paramedic Chuck Rivanis waits to be injected during a clinic for first responders at the Winchester Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 in Winchester, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, left, wears a face mask as she visits a regional hospital in Lutsk, about 400 km (247 miles) west of Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Ukraine's presidential election in January could be postponed because of swine flu, a newspaper quoted a government official as saying Friday. (AP Photo/Aleksandr Prokopenko, Pool)

AP

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, second left, wears a face mask as she visits a regional hospital in Lutsk, about 400 km (247 miles) west of Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Ukraine's presidential election in January could be postponed because of swine flu, a newspaper quoted a government official as saying Friday. (AP Photo/Aleksandr Prokopenko, Pool)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hospital staff, wearing face masks, seen during a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, unseen, who visits a hospital in Lutsk, about 400 km (247 miles) west of Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Ukraine's presidential election in January could be postponed because of swine flu, a newspaper quoted a government official as saying Friday. (AP Photo/Aleksandr Prokopenko, Pool)

AP

An Afghan street cleaner wears a protective mask as he rests next to advertising posters in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Swine flu has left 11 people dead in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Afghan and international troops are battling the disease and facing a rising militant insurgency. The Afghan Ministry of Public Health reported that 710 of the 779 cases of the flu in the nation have been among military personnel. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

AP

People queue up outside a Chinese hospital for their turn to be inoculated with the swine flu vaccine at a hospital in Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui province on November 10, 2009. China's health authority stepped up a mass vaccination campaign and other measures to combat swine flu as the number of cases soared to nearly 60,000 and the death toll almost doubled to 30. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Chinese nurse prepares to inoculate a woman with the swine flu vaccine at a hospital in Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui province on November 10, 2009. China's health authority stepped up a mass vaccination campaign and other measures to combat swine flu as the number of cases soared to nearly 60,000 and the death toll almost doubled to 30. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser tables the 2009 Fall Report in Ottawa, Ont., Tuesday November 3, 2009. She was joined by Commissioner of Environmental and Sustainable Development Scott Vaughan.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

In these three undated photos provided by Dickenson State University, missing students, from left, Kyrstin Gemar, 22, of Grossmont, Calif., Ashley Neufeld, 21, of Brandon, Manitoba in Canada, and Afton Williamson, 20, of Lake Elsinore, Calif. are shown.

AP Photo/Dickenson State University

In this undated photo, Dickinson State University's Ashley Neufeld, of Brandon, Manitoba, runs the bases during a softball game in Dickinson, N.D. Neufeld is one of three DSU students who were reported missing Monday, Nov 2, 2009. Neufled, 21, along with DSU softball players Kyrstin Gemar and Afton Williamson were reported missing Monday. Law enforcement officials are searching the area around Dickinson, N.D., for the women.

AP Photo/The Dickinson Press, Dustin Monke

A commuter wears face mask as a precaution against flu seen through a bus window in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Ukrainian politicians have seized on the country's apparently mild swine flu outbreak as a political issue in the run-up to January's presidential election, a pivotal vote that could overturn the Orange Revolution of 2004 that swept a pro-Western government to power.

AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, leave with Governor-General Micahelle Jean and followed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen, after welcoming ceremonies Monday, November 2, 2009 in St. John's, Newfoundland.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

A pickup truck plowed through the wall of a hotel in Aldergrove, B.C., Monday, then crashed through four rooms. The driver was slightly injured but no guests or hotel staff members were hurt. Police said the driver was leaving a parking lot across the street about midday Monday when he apparently suffered a medical event that rendered him unconscious.

CBC News

The Best Western Hotel in Aldergrove sustained serious damage when a man, who suffered a medical event, drove through the hotel around noon on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. No one is injured in the incident and fire officials are on scene to investigate the accident.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sam Leung

The Best Western Hotel in Aldergrove sustained serious damage when a man, who suffered a medical event, drove through the hotel around noon on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. No one is injured in the incident and fire officials are on scene to investigate the accident.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sam Leung

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Governor General Michaelle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper chat during welcoming ceremonies Monday, November 2, 2009 in St. John's, Newfoundland.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hand out candy at the White House, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 in Washington, on Halloween.

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta