Thank you.
Indeed, it should have been. That's also what we requested from IRCC in the beginning as well, that these are some of the facilitations, some of the...including bringing people into Pakistan or another third country, as well as bringing people into Canada right away as they have done with Ukrainians.
One thing that the IRCC claims, which I want to refute right here, is that because of national security, because of us.... Mr. Hallan mentioned earlier how the comments the minister made were despicable because we have some of the highest security backgrounds. We shared compounds, compartments, rooms and dining tables with the Canadian soldiers, as well as with the Canadian civilian mission, senators and members of Parliament who were in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
All our data has been with the Department of National Defence for the last 10 years. All of our families who are in Canada came in through the 2009 to 2012 process, so there's no way to say that they don't have information on our families or they don't trust our families. Imagine giving your life, fighting for the same values that Canada believes in. We fought for the same values, and now to told that our families are a risk and they can't do the same thing for our families.... There are 14 or 15 different forms of requirements. For the Ukrainians they avoided most of the paperwork, which makes travelling into Canada way easier. In the last seven months, only 10,000 Afghans have made it to Canada, and not from Afghanistan. The majority came from other spots, but in the case of the Ukrainians so far, you know better than I do the number of Ukrainians who have been brought to Canada in only the last six to eight weeks.
Our demand from IRCC, from the Canadian government, is to treat us fairly. We're also human. We also bleed. We fought with you. We were your allies.