A member of Afghanistan’s Parliament forced to flee her homeland after the Taliban takeover last year is pleading with Canada to do more to help bring Afghan refugees to safety
Canada promised to resettle at least 40,000 Afghan refugees last summer and Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said in late May more than 14,000 have now arrived.
“Even if the threshold of 40,000 refugee intake is already full, the responsibility and the determination and the commitment is not done yet,” Farid said, joining a news conference in Ottawa via video link. Manitoba Sen. Marilou McPhedran said she cannot even get an answer from the government about who is making decisions about which Afghan applicants will be invited to resettle in Canada.
“So there’s a wizard behind the curtain here and it is a time when I don’t know who to turn to now,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons why we made the decision to speak out.”
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