\u0027We simply don\u0027t have the capacities, we don\u0027t have the people and we don\u0027t have the political will,\u0027 says a Royal Military College professor
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has also travelled to Kenya, where she has met with evacuated Canadians and diplomats, as well as representatives of other countries in the region.
The Canadian Armed Forces have the mandate for these types of non-combatant evacuations, but the problem is that the military is “so exceptionally short on people and on assets” that means “something else is going to give,” he said. “We simply don’t have the capacities, we don’t have the people and we don’t have the political will.”
He said “Canada has a track record of not being the first there or when we do, we just we don’t have enough people on the ground.” In Lebanon, the government was “completely overwhelmed” by the numbers of people who needed help. She said situations where Canada has to evacuate citizens from crisis zones are part of “a global process of migration that’s happening.”
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