Why did canada support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war?

[Gooner1(the original one)]

Because at that time the West favoured Saddam Hussein.Iran had a hard line extremist government and the west don't like those sort of regimes.

 

[damian]

Why did canada support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war? I can't find a single reason saying they supported them at all =\
Why did canada support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war? I can't find a single reason saying they supported them at all =\

EDIT: But I am to write an essay about why canada supported Iraq, is there no one that actually know what canada was doing at the time?