It looks like Canada will not be at the sharp end in Afghanistan post 2009. Harper talked to Bush yesterday at the Three Fiascos summit and the Americans have been made aware (summit speak, obviously nothing the US didn't already know) that parliamentary approval for another extension is unlikely to be forthcoming, with the New Democrats wanting to talk to the Taliban and pull all troops out immediately and the BQ and the Liberals (the latter having committed the CF to Kandahar) wanting them out in 2009.