Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Minister.
Minister, following some of the discussion about Afghanistan, I want to ask you about a specific situation. It's a situation I wrote to you about last week. It's one that's very important to people in my constituency.
One of my constituents travelled to Afghanistan, at obviously great personal risk, to help a family that he was acquainted with leave the country. Subsequently, this constituent of mine raised the finances required to privately sponsor this family. They're in Pakistan now, in a very tenuous situation. The couple are human rights defenders. The man is a human rights lawyer and the woman was a teacher at a girls' school. They were prepared to apply. They were told not to submit their application because the navigation unit is not giving pre-approvals right now due to switching systems.
Can you speak to that technical issue? As well, can you advise on whether you'd be prepared to intervene to expedite this case? I think this is a very worthy case and a very serious situation. These folks are in a very tenuous situation in Pakistan right now.