Straight to the point | Priority: save Afghans in danger!

There is now a new Minister of Immigration in Canada – Sean Fraser from Nova Scotia.

He has probably already started to familiarize himself with his files. Allow us to urge him to give priority to the issue of the evacuation of Afghans in danger.

Let’s summarize the situation so that he can understand it in less than a minute: it has been more than two months since the operation to evacuate Canada has been completed… and it has now been more than two months since the case has been processed by Ottawa with a nonchalance coupled with red tape which, under the circumstances, is shocking.

The most recent testimonies on this subject were reported by journalist Jean-François Bélanger of Radio-Canada. In his reports, he interviewed several Afghans who once helped Canada (as an interpreter, as a pharmacist in a military hospital, etc.) and for whom Ottawa should now move heaven and earth.

But that is not what is happening. Far from there. It is recognized that the situation of Afghans who remain stuck in their country is highly complex. Ottawa must enlist the help of its allies to make things happen.

But how to explain that even Afghans who were able to flee their country – as a former interpreter of the journalist of the Globe and Mail Mark MacKinnon, transported to Ukraine by soldiers from that country – have not yet received the green light from Ottawa? Let us insist: it is incomprehensible. That’s the story, Mr. Fraser. It’s your turn. And, please, without delay.

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