Thank you very much.
Absolutely, the answer is yes, yes, yes. Should we scale this program up? We should definitely scale it up as much as we possibly can.
There are a few different points to consider here.
The first is that we should be accepting education and gender. If you are simply a woman in Afghanistan, that should be recognized as grounds for seeking asylum or for becoming eligible for these pathways in Canada, because, at the moment, these two issues are so inherently interlinked. If you are in Afghanistan at the moment, you are at risk. Especially for women and girls at the moment, the risk is so severe and these concepts are so interlinked. That automatically would provide some sort of link for them to become eligible for these pathways. We should be scaling all programs, in fact, whether they are private sponsorship programs or skilled refugees pathways. Absolutely, there's a lot of room for work here.
We obviously cannot bring everybody in Afghanistan to Canada. That would be my preferred way to do this, if possible, but we know this is not possible. We know that other countries are already ahead of Canada in this endeavour. For example, Denmark announced on Monday that they would grant asylum status to Afghan women solely based on gender. The numbers are small and they won't have the ability to scale it to as large a program as Canada can, but we definitely are encouraged to see signs like this in the international community. We'd like to see much more of this. All programs that allow for this are absolutely very important and should be streamlined as much as possible.