Senator McPhedran: Key within the kinds of communications that were happening day and night was a small circle of high officials into which I had been invited by Minister Monsef, and I asked to bring in a consultant who had been working with me for a number of years because she was a member of a national team here in Canada. I had been asked to help hundreds — many more — athletes than I was already trying to help parliamentarians and human rights defenders, and I just didn’t have more hours in a day. That email circle — I have every email. They are dated and stamped. The authorities are named within them. I can tell you here tonight that template that we used to try and help — and we have succeeded — and when I say “we,” I mean a network from Denmark to Zurich to Australia to Canada to the United States, everyone doing their best. But we used what’s called a visa facilitation letter. And I got it. It was conveyed to us, to our group, by the chief of staff for the then-defence minister. If somebody can’t trust that as a source, I don’t know what source you can look to.

That document — I obviously can’t detail all of the emails, but I have all of the evidence. It is readily available to any of you who want to see everything I have from that time period. It is anticipated there will be a third article with similar headlines. We’ll just have to deal with that. But the affidavit — and I need to finish tonight — is because six Afghans at extreme risk are taking IRCC to court. I hope I can be helpful to them.

Thank you very much. Meegwetch.

(Debate concluded.)

(At 7:29 p.m., pursuant to the order adopted by the Senate earlier this day, the Senate adjourned until Tuesday, February 7, 2023, at 2 p.m.)