Rick Hillier Live on CBC Radio One's GO - Tim Horton's

A writer from The Rick Mercer Report asks retired Chief of the Defence Rick Hillier about what will happen to the Tim Hortons franchise in Kandahar, when the war ends in Afganistan. Will it go to a warlord, inquires Greg Eckler, writer for The Mercer Report.

Hilllier shows his sense of humour when answering the question.

Hillier retired in the summer of 2008, as Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces. You could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada's most popular, and most controversial, military leader since the second World War left a role in which he'd been as frank, unpredictable and resolutely apolitical as any of his predecessors.

Born and raised in Newfoundland, Hillier joined the military as a young man and quickly climbed the ranks. He played a significant role in such domestic challenges as the ice storm that paralyzed much of eastern Ontario and Quebec in 1998, and quickly became a player on the international scene, commanding an American corps in Texas and a multinational NATO task force in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

But it was his role as General Rick Hillier, Canada's Chief of the Defence staff that defined him as a Canadian icon. In Afghanistan, Canada faced its first combat losses since the Korean War, with every casualty becoming front page news. A country formerly ambivalent, or even angry, about its role in the conflict suddenly became gripped by the drama unfolding not only in a war zone halfway around the world but in unfriendly conference rooms in Ottawa. There, as everywhere, Hillier pulled no punches, demanding more funding, more troops and more appreciation for the women and men fighting a war on foreign soil.

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[shm00py]

Several independent investigations of 9/11 have conclusively settled these questions, and Kalid Sheik Mohammad corroborated it. Hawkey, you may not have liked George W Bush, but to suggest he allowed thousands of Americans to die is perverse, foolish and offensive. Go find another conspiracy theory to stimulate your peanut-sized brain, and let the 9/11 victims rest in peace.

[hawkeyicockburn]

1 in 3 Canadians doubt the official 9/11 commission story, some of the members of that commission say it was a political farse, Today Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Our troops were placed in harms way as Gordon Oconnor put it "911 RETRIBUTION"

[hawkeyicockburn]

I like Safeway donuts better....

[hawkeyicockburn]

certainly our troops, their family and friends and our Generals who lead our troops deserve the truth about the lies and crimes of 9/11 and the lies that resulted in two wars. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan deserve equal courtesy to a criminal independent investigation to the crimes of 911 and the 24 Canadians murdered,

[rohanwotan2]

@hawkeyicockburn

Certainly you can and should question government. But people can and should question what you are proposing, yet you seem to think that kind of questioning to be inappropriate.

The claims that the WTC were brought down by controlled demolitions or remotely-controlled aircraft have long been debunked. So sell your nonsense elsewhere where folks are more gullible.....a church maybe?

[hawkeyicockburn]

The towers were brought down by controlled demolition. This puts the (Bush) 9/11 commission and it's findings in serious doubt. So your proposing we should shut up, put up , and don't ask questions makes me wonder what nation do you think we live in... Communist China? Its not only okay to question Government, It's our democratic responsibility.