Citizenship and Immigration committee  The agreement was acted upon and was evidenced in many of our communications. It was very clear that this is what was happening.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. We were copying ministers regularly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was not on every single email. It depended on the topics, but it was Minister Sajjan, Minister Monsef, Minister Mendicino and Minister Garneau.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, as a result of being included in the email communications.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, definitely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wasn't dealing with Olga Radchenko, who was the director of policy at the time and then became chief of staff to Minister Fraser.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we had communications with Mike Jones.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely no one did.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm glad you raised that. I understand that your constituent has found safety and will be going or has gone already.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't speak to how they interpreted it. I can tell you, though, that there was no safe way out of Afghanistan in those days.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would try. I did everything I could do that I thought was possible at the time. Under those circumstances, I stand by the choices I made.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Ali. I have never worked in a situation like the extreme humanitarian crisis that was happening as a result of the Taliban retaking Afghanistan. I considered it a unique situation, and a lot of the bureaucratic rules that one might apply just were

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, sir. I'm sorry, but my experience of what was actually happening, as opposed to the theory of maybe what should happen, was that many of the people being given the letters based on the template from Global Affairs, whether they were getting it from IRCC or Global Affairs or

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sir, you can't hold me responsible for the contents of letters that were prepared by the Government of Canada. The content was the content, and it came, in my case.... I was assured that it came from Global Affairs. It had Global Affairs' insignia. It has exactly the same wordin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  May I just say that we have a different understanding, sir.