Anita Anand said Canada has no plans to recognize the government of the Taliban, which is listed as a prescribed terrorist group
But Anand told a special Parliamentary committee on Afghanistan on Monday that Canada’s armed forces helped give a generation of Afghans access to school, university and health care.
The Minister faced questions from MPs on the committee who said humanitarian organizations were facing difficulties delivering aid because of the Taliban’s status. One captain of a Canadian flight packed his cargo aircraft, designed to carry abound 200, with 535 people.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Anand and Eyre faced questions about why Canada had only evacuated 3,700 people, while the U.K. had managed to get around 11,000 out.
Eyre said Canada was given only one airport slot to fly people out per day, and was under time pressure as the Taliban advanced toward Kabul. NDP MP Jenny Kwan asked what happened to the other 3,100 Afghans whom the Defence Department confirmed as having bona fide links to Canadian Forces in Afghanistan but have not yet been accepted.
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