Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe I asked Ms. Robinson to work with me as a volunteer and that the delegation you're talking about.... I was not overseeing every word Ms. Robinson wrote.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we need to recall that on August 15, 2021, when Kabul fell to the Taliban, Prime Minister Trudeau called an election. I think there's some relevance here to some of what went on—some of what happened and some of what didn't happen. I'm a very pragmatic person, sir, and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the work that has already been done by the Special Committee on Afghanistan, chaired by Michael Chong.... The recommendations are excellent. I think the next step has to be—and I hope it will be for this committee, and I would be very happy to come back to be part of that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I need to clarify—when you say my office—the process that happened. The template we were given by George Young was shared with a number of trusted advocates in different countries who then facilitated, as best they could, people hopefully being accepted by soldiers into the airpo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I did not keep close track, no. It was about giving the template to trusted advocates and helping to get the names to create the letters that could be used.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, that's not correct. It's not an either-or situation, Ms. Kwan. I will give you a specific example of what I mean.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They were advocates and organizations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's a small list. I can tell you right now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They were supposed to help people get to the airport and, when they got to the airport, to then get access, through the soldiers guarding the airport, and be processed, hopefully, for evacuation. That's what the letter says.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is that a yes or no, sir, that you want? The answer is yes, that is what I believed and that is what I acted on. It was because all of us were working together to try to save lives.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a practical reality here that we need to keep in mind, and that is that non-governmental organizations and advocates around the world were doing a lot of the heavy lifting to try to save lives. Governments were not able to. They just weren't able to respond to the massive

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for your question. I'm sorry, but I will answer in English, if that's okay. First of all, the message I received from the chief of staff—not just a staff person but the chief of staff—for the Minister of Defence for Canada said, “I have received this from a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. It said, “a colleague from GAC...try it”. Then there's a period and then “George”. Attached to that was the first template, which included the words “Canadian citizen”. I asked Laura to write back to say that we were helping Afghans and to ask that we please be given a docume

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do, in that he was copied on the correspondence back and forth about what we were doing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't speak to what Mr. Sajjan knew in his mind, but I can tell you that he was copied on the communications.