Defence Minister David McGuinty says he was made aware that a base in Kuwait hosting members of the Canadian Armed Forces was hit by an Iranian airstrike “immediately” after the strike occurred on March 1.
McGuinty’s comments on March 19 come after he suggested to reporters earlier in the day that he was not aware of the strike before Quebec media La Presse reported on it on March 12.
When asked by a reporter when he had first learned about the attack, McGuinty said he was “first informed about the situation in the Middle East while abroad with the prime minister on a global tour in the Indo-Pacific.”…