Citizenship and Immigration committee  You mentioned about the Ukrainian process being applied to the Afghan process. Giving the documentation to come to Canada, as well as the RAP program, as well as having the Afghans do the biometrics in Canada or in any third country, would be our proposal as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. At the moment, I don't see any changes happening to their government. I think what Canada and the international community need to continue doing is engage Afghan civil society and the Afghan non-governmental institutions. Just because the Taliban took over doesn't mean tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, definitely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Basically, what happened is that for those who made it to Pakistan, a few select people were accommodated. However, the majority of the people who made it to Pakistan have been left on their own, without any accommodation offered by the IOM or any other resources. We have broug

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you so much for this question. I remember you asking the same question in the Special Committee on Afghanistan. The fact is that we have told the Canadian public, as well as the people at the IRCC, that as previous victims of the Russian invasion in Afghanistan, we sympath

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that's definitely a problem for former interpreters and their families. Using a third country was one of our proposals to the previous minister at IRCC, as well as the current honourable minister at IRCC, Sean Fraser. When we talked with him, we proposed that either Qatar o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for this important question. We brought to the government's attention previously, once we heard these kinds of hurtful comments from the government, the fact that the Afghan interpreters worked side by side with the Canadian Armed Forces in their civilian mission. We w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you so much, Madam Chair. I'll present the opening statement highlighting the issues with the IRCC public policy of December 9, 2021, for the former interpreters' extended family members. I have a confirmation on timelines. The former chief of staff to the previous minis

Afghanistan committee  That's a great question. Thank you for pointing that out. That's one of our main debates and arguments with IRCC, that we are the people with the highest background checks and security clearances. We were sleeping in the same quarters with the Canadian higher-ups, including Canad

Afghanistan committee  We will 100%.

Afghanistan committee  Yes, indeed, that's our top request.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  Yes, there are flights available from Kabul, from five major airports of Afghanistan. There are flights happening to UAE, Qatar, India and Pakistan.

Afghanistan committee  As for flights from Afghanistan to Britain, I have no data or information, but I'm pretty sure if international airlines can come to Afghanistan and they can go to any regional country then they can go anywhere in Europe.