Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed this is the focus of a lot of work on the humanitarian front. My colleagues here might have other answers, but on the humanitarian front, our focus has been continuing to learn how to improve protection from violence during crises like this. The targeting of women and gir

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to be clear, there's interference at the local level. Aid is coming in. Indeed, last year, with Canada's assistance, the broader donor community provided food aid to 26 million people. Food aid is coming in. Broader assistance is happening. There is a challenging operating

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to be clear, when I talk about humanitarian assistance, I'm talking about the broad, international humanitarian system in place that is providing multi-billion dollars' worth of support. If we're talking just about the Canadian response and Canadian partners, that's somethin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Canadian NGOs are challenged because of Bill C-41 right now. They're challenged because of the counterterrorism law, which we've discussed already. Maybe my colleague would like to go down that road.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, but I don't have the specifics about the evacuation. I can say that we did have staff—diplomats—in Khartoum who were engaged in Global Affairs business. As to how they were evacuated, I don't have that information, but they were evacuated.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's not a question I can answer, sorry.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed, Afghanistan is a challenging environment to operate in for our humanitarian partners. As already described, the de facto authorities in Afghanistan have imposed a number of restrictions on partners—NGO partners initially and now the UN—to disallow female workers to delive

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our aid is very focused, as I said, on a few key sectors. Food and nutrition is one of them, as is health care. We work with just a small number of partners. They report back to us on a regular basis with annual reports, but we're also in touch with them regularly through their

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we did not cancel any contracts. We had agreements in place with partners already. Those agreements continued until their end. What we couldn't do is start new contracts. We could not put in place new programming with NGOs, and that was the constraint we were living under wit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I mentioned in previous interventions, Canada has been a significant donor to humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan. Our focus has been on food security and responding to the needs of the most vulnerable. Because of the nature of the repression of women and girls in Afghanist

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure, I'd be happy to, Minister. The government has focused on humanitarian assistance and the basic needs of Afghan individuals. The focus has been on providing blanket food assistance. The minister mentioned that 20 million people are facing food insecurity right now, acute fo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed, it is a massive challenge for delivering humanitarian assistance. Last year alone there were 1,400 incidents of interference by the Taliban in humanitarian deliveries. That includes efforts around diverting assistance or identifying beneficiaries who weren't part of the b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. To confirm what my colleagues have been saying, we have been part of a coordinated response, indeed. On the humanitarian side, which I'm responsible for, we work very closely with other donor countries to coordinate our response to th

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll turn to my colleague, Jess Dutton.

Foreign Affairs committee  There's a $10 million matching fund. The $50 million is with partners already in northwest Syria. The money has been disbursed already.