Thank you, Chair.
You know, even though we're far away from it here in Canada, MPs get drawn into this too. I have an example of a letter I received, which I will read: “Please save my life and my family. We are in a bad mental and physical condition and I live in a secret place in a bad security situation. House-to-house searches have begun in different parts of Afghanistan, and it is possible for us to be captured and killed by the terrorist Taliban at any moment. I sent an email to your country's immigration office. Only one email came in and no other confirmation email came to reassure me and my family. Please, please, please, save me and my family.” That was sent directly to me.
Ms. Armstrong and Ms. Barr, you both gave some examples similar to this. This is not an uncommon situation, from what I can see.
Ms. Armstrong, you were quoted as saying, “I am not one who likes to criticize my government.” You actually just mentioned that. You said, “I think governing is a hard job and they're in the business of trying to please most of the people all of the time and that's very tough to do. But what happened here was a neglect of duty.”
I'm just wondering if you could comment a bit more on that. How much of what we're seeing here is created by the Taliban versus a neglect of duty? What are your thoughts on that?