Mr. Speaker, they were busy knocking on doors. There is no pride in only achieving 20% of that target. The minister should be ashamed of himself for abandoning them and then standing up for an election instead of helping those Afghans. The minister should be thanking the veterans, NGOs and those of our NATO allies that actually stepped up when his government failed to.
UNHCR testified that it had a plan to evacuate Afghan refugees back in January 2021. The government knew about it and ignored it.
Why was an election plan more important than an evacuation plan?