Two week's ago, the parliamentary secretary of the Canadian Defense Minister insisted that ISIS was "criminal organization with a religious veneer on it". A week later, the Premier of Canada stated that the country would stop bombing ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but would still participate in the coalition's effort to combat the jihadist group, and in that same week, the Defense Minister was reportedly reluctant to call the conflict with IS a war. It seems that there is clear disconnect between the reality which the coalition forces face in the Middle East, and the obsession on this new Canadian government to keep its electoral promises at all costs.