Answers sought over applications for 3,100 Afghans who helped Canada
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OTTAWA — NDP caucus chair Jenny Kwan says she is in search of pressing solutions about what has occurred to the functions of three,100 Afghans who helped the Canadian navy.
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Kwan is demanding Immigration Minister Sean Fraser clarify why the Afghans, whose credentials have been checked and verified by Canada’s navy, haven’t had their functions to return to Canada accepted.
Defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre informed a parliamentary committee Monday night time that the Defence Division had checked and verified the credentials of three,800 Afghans, together with interpreters, who supported the Canadian navy.
However the committee heard solely 900 of them have had their functions to return to Canada accepted up to now by the Immigration Division.
Kwan says she is planning to pursue the matter vigorously because the lives of Afghans who helped Canadian troops are at risk from the Taliban.
She says the Taliban is searching down interpreters and their households, and she or he desires Canada to situation a one-time journey doc so weak Afghans don’t have to lift their heads to use for passports.
