OTTAWA - A petition sponsored by a Liberal MP is reviving calls for a fresh look at whether veterans of the Afghanistan conflict should be reconsidered for Canada's top military honour.

Liberal MP Pauline Rochefort is sponsoring the new petition in Parliament. It calls for the creation of an "Independent Military Honours Review Board to review Afghanistan veterans' cases" to determine whether any of them meet the bar for the Victoria Cross.

The federal government says the Victoria Cross is reserved for soldiers who demonstrate "the most conspicuous bravery, a daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty, in the presence of the enemy"

It has never been awarded to any Canadian for service in any conflict since the end of the Second World War.

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