Harper said Wednesday that he will be seeking parliamentary approval to extend the six-month mission, now set to expire in early April.
He said more details about the new mission would be unveiled next week, including whether the bombing campaign by CF-18s on targets in Iraq will be extended to Syria.
“The current mission was authorized in the fall and that authority comes due fairly shortly,” Harper said.
“Next week it is the government’s plan to move forward with a request for Parliament for extension and expansion of the mission. I will obviously give more details when we do that,” Harper said, during a stop in Mississauga.
Canada joined the multinational campaign against Islamic State extremists in September, when it announced that a team of 69 special forces soldiers were being sent to northern Iraq in a noncombat mission to train local Kurdish and Iraqi fighters.