Afghanistan committee  That's clear, yes.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, it depends on the nature of the ask, where it would be, the numbers, the security situation—

Afghanistan committee  What third country?

Afghanistan committee  As with any request for assistance, we would have to do an assessment. What is the nature of the request? What is the security situation? What is being asked of us, and then what options could we provide?

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, no, the briefings that we would give—briefing up—continued on a daily basis. The interdepartmental coordination continued on a daily basis. As I said previously, the biggest impact was on our ability to publicly communicate.

Afghanistan committee  My understanding is that, in the middle of the election, we were told not to.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, there were varying degrees of interpreter clearance, depending on the roles we were having them do. Some will be granted full security clearance based on the roles and the intelligence that are going to be accessed. For others who are hired locally, the screening is le

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, some of that information, if it still existed in record form, would form part of the validation process that would be given to IRCC. I think it's also important to note that many of these interpreters did not work solely for Canada. Many worked for other nations as we

Afghanistan committee  I have the same figures, Mr. Chair.

Afghanistan committee  I have nothing further to add.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I would just like to add that I am extremely proud of the work that our people did during the course of this crisis in some very trying circumstances. We had one member on the ground who had, I believe, 10 or 12 deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq and had seen some pre

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, first let me correct the premise of the purpose of Operation Aegis. It wasn't just to evacuate Afghans; it was also to evacuate Canadian citizens and Canadian entitled people. It's interesting to note that those listed on the ROCA, the registration of Canadians abroad,

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I have personally had contact with a number of the members of those groups. I, too, felt the same sort of distress when Afghans that I'd served with would reach out to me, and I was not able to support them in the way I would like. I had to be very careful as well, as

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, if I understand the question correctly, it is whether we could have stayed longer to conduct more evacuation flights.

Afghanistan committee  In terms of starting earlier, we started very shortly after the request came in. Given what's called “ramp space” and “slots”, the number of slots that we could have for Canada limited the number of flights that we could put in. In terms of staying longer, the deteriorating secu