Are Canadians hoping to fight ISIS alongside Kurds making a mistake?

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are waging war against ISIS. And fighting right alongside the Kurds, are Canadian soldiers. Dillion Hillier (the voice in the video above) is one of them. He filmed the video footage himself. Later, he would describe that day's fighting as "the best day of my life."

At 26-years-old, Hillier is a retired corporal from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry who served in Afghanistan. He made his own way to Iraq, assisted by an organization known as the First North American Expeditionary Force.

We did request interviews with both Ian Bradbury and Dillon Hillier. Neither was available today.

And since Dillon Hillier's expedition to Iraq has come to light, Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has spoken out, advising Canadians against taking up arms with foreign militias, including those fighting enemies of Canada, such as ISIS.

Dillon Hillier's parents -- his father happens to be Ontario MPP Randy Hillier -- have publicly stated that they're proud of their son.

Alan Bell is a former soldier with the elite UK regiment, the SAS. Now he runs Globe Risk Institute, a security evaluation and training organization based in Toronto.

Nicole Watts travelled to the Kurdish capital of Erbil in October, where she was conducing research for an upcoming book about the Kurdish situation in Northern Iraq. She is a professor of political science at San Francisco State University and the author of several books on Kurdish activism.

This segment was produced by The Current's Leif Zapf-Gilje, Marc Apollonio and Ines Colabrese.