The stateless refugees of Afghanistan

While the Trudeau government has made it clear that there are 'absolutely no plans' to send any troops back to Afghanistan, the fundamental question remains: what will the Canadian government do for those few Afghan refugees who, by some miracle, make it to Canadian shores?

Afghan refugee girls wait at the end of a long line of 150 residents that live in the Farah City District V Refugee Camp to receive donated items sent from the United States and delivered to the camp by the Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team Civil Affairs Team in 2010. Tracy DeMarco/U.S. Air Force Photo

Opinion

BY ALI MIRZAD

October 24, 2017

October 7th marked the sixteenth year of the start of the U.S War in Afghanistan—Canada's role in that conflict began in late 2001. Canada sent its first contingent of Canadian soldiers secretly in October 2001 from Joint Task Force 2 under Operation APOLLO. Sixteen years later, and with an ever ...

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