The minister's answer to Ms. Damoff is actually contradictory. On the one hand, Afghan interpreters' families have said that they are told they need to get to a third country. Then when they get to a third country, they're asked what they are doing there and told that they need to actually be in Afghanistan because they can't be guaranteed passage if they're in a third country. On and on it goes in a circle, and nobody can actually figure out what the right thing to do is.
People have used all different kinds of measures as best they can in survival mode to try to access safety. I would urge the minister to use flexibility in terms of addressing these issues for these families instead of the rigid approach where they have to go through A, B and C in order to get to D. Otherwise, people will not be able to get to safety.
I also have this question for the minister. Human rights defenders have received written messages from GAC indicating that their applications have been deemed eligible by GAC for the special immigration measures and have been forwarded to IRCC for processing. That was eight months ago, yet IRCC has not even acknowledged receipt of the application. What is the holdup?