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House Hansard - 30

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 14, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 30 - Feb/14/22
Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, CPC)
  • Feb/14/22 2:58:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, nine months before Kabul fell, 23 Liberal MPs sent a letter to the Minister of Immigration and the Minister of Foreign Affairs warning them of the dangers Afghan interpreters and those who serve Canada would face when the Taliban took over. They pleaded to help them immigrate to Canada with their families as soon as possible. Why did this fall on deaf ears? Why did the government ignore their own MPs and abandon thousands of Afghan interpreters and our allies, leaving them in harm's way?
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Context: House Hansard - 30 - Feb/14/22
Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, CPC)
  • Feb/14/22 2:59:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, they were busy knocking on doors. There is no pride in only achieving 20% of that target. The minister should be ashamed of himself for abandoning them and then standing up for an election instead of helping those Afghans. The minister should be thanking the veterans, NGOs and those of our NATO allies that actually stepped up when his government failed to. UNHCR testified that it had a plan to evacuate Afghan refugees back in January 2021. The government knew about it and ignored it. Why was an election plan more important than an evacuation plan?
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