‘A question of life and death for a lot of people’: feds’ slow-paced Afghan refugee resettlement process panned

The Liberal government pledged to allow 40,000 Afghan refugees to settle in Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, and the Liberal government has been criticized for its handling of the resettlement of Afghan refugees. The file will be led by new Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, left, and new Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, right, in the next Parliament. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

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BY NEIL MOSS

October 27, 2021

For those trying to ensure at-risk Afghans can leave their country in the face of potential reprisals, a slow-moving bureaucratic machine has stood in the way. Farouq Samim, who came to Canada in 2009, has already helped around 800 Afghan nationals leave the central Asian nation and is trying to he...

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