Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Canada will still have a job to do in Afghanistan once its combat role ends in early 2011.
During a visit to Kandahar Monday, MacKay said the focus will be on helping the Afghans take control of their own country.
MacKay said Canada is not interested in simply holding on to "swaths of land" in Afghanistan.
"They're in the process of redefining this mission as a combat mission to an aid mission where soldiers will no longer go out to seek the enemy but rather help train Afghan army and police to do that," The Globe and Mail's Colin Freeze told CTV Newsnet on Monday from Kandahar.
