Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Through you, Mr. Chair, to the minister, this committee has heard a lot of testimony from many witnesses describing your department as slow to react, overly bureaucratic, risk-averse and even indifferent to the fate of our Afghan allies and their families.
When I put that to you, I am distinguishing between the allies, the Afghan allies of ours who fought alongside our Canadians, helping them with language and culture, and those who were already outside of Afghanistan waiting as refugees to come here. You've mentioned several times and spent quite a bit of time on the 40,000 number, but that does not help these people and their families who were promised that, for helping us and standing up for us, they would be helped to come here.
What do you say for your department when we are hearing this testimony week after week in this committee?