Madam Chair, I will be asking questions.
Canadians have been horrified by the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a residential school in Kamloops. Every child matters.
In the summer of 2020, Canadian officials travelled to the Kurdish-run al-Hol prison camp in northeast Syria to repatriate a five-year-old Canadian child, Amira, rescuing her from the horrific and life-threatening conditions faced by children in prison camps in northern Syria.
However, more than 20 Canadian children were left behind, and the majority of them are under six. When the previous foreign affairs minister was asked about the situation, he said, “We had one orphan, and we brought her back. We should all be happy with that.”
Does the current minister agree with the approach of his predecessor? What can the government say to children who remain behind about what it intends to do?