Citizenship and Immigration committee  The purpose of the amendment is to enable that engagement. I think we share their commitment to engaging with the people of Afghanistan and making sure that Canada can play an important role in protecting their rights and improving the circumstances in which they find themselves.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks for the question. The legislation has in it a set of criteria for the kinds of undertakings that will be given protection from criminal liability. The reason for that is to make sure that the central objective in the Criminal Code is protected, which is to prevent financi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it's a great idea. We're working on—once the legislation is completed and runs through its process in Parliament—being able to pick up and start applying them as quickly as possible. Yes, there are three departments involved. I can assure you that we work very closely to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that's our intention.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. The legislation was presented in Parliament fairly recently. It'll go through the process, and I think we'll be looking at how it applies. Organizations that have been part of the process and that have been working with us to develop these solutions will obviously have rea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we can do that. We want to be a bit careful about the organizations, though. There are security issues. This is not the case at the moment, but it will become so when the legislation comes into play.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're very committed to making sure that this amendment does two things at once. One is to protect the integrity of the Criminal Code. The intention of that is to prevent terrorist financing. The second thing is for it to have an enabling function. We don't want that first object

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we tried to maintain vigilance of a range of terrorist and violent extremist organizations worldwide, not just in Central Asia and the Middle East but also in North America, Europe and other parts of the world.

Afghanistan committee  It's an interesting question, and I am going to answer it to the best of my ability. As we track the Taliban, from my perspective and from my position, we're looking at it from a policy perspective, and we're engaging across a range of multilateral platforms with Five Eyes partne

Afghanistan committee  I want simply to add that we continue to live in full respect of the Canadian law that is currently in place, and we are providing as much support as we possibly can to the people of Afghanistan through appropriate channels, managed in the international community.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Unfortunately, this is an area that I would prefer to direct to the geographic. From a counterterrorism perspective, we were not focused on the status of any governments and we were not focused on the particular plight of Kabul as much as the patt

Afghanistan committee  IRCC is a key stakeholder and partner and interlocutor for Stephen Salewicz's section of the department, which does humanitarian assistance. We don't use the international Red Cross as an intelligence connection at all. That would not be appropriate.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. As far as the screening procedures and Afghans coming to Canada are concerned, those questions.... I apologize that my answer appears to be evasive. It's not my intention at all. Those are questions that need to be directed to IRCC, which has the

Afghanistan committee  All I can tell you is that we depend on the advice of experts on the ground and of Canadian experts. They have told us that the situation has remained dangerous and unstable, and that it was evolving rapidly. I know that NGOs are operating, but, according to what we know and the