Madam Speaker, last August a 17-member Canadian Forces evacuation operations advance team arrived at Ali Al Salem Air Base near Kuwait City so it could link up with the U.S. and U.K. teams already on the ground in Kabul to save Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban. They sat idle for days awaiting orders to deploy, wasting precious time to evacuate Afghans, with many losing their lives. Why?
In the House of Commons on February 11th, 2022. See this statement in context.