Canadian-organized airlift needed to bring food, medical provisions to Afghanistan

A Canadian-organized airlift this winter of food and medical provisions for Kabul could save some of Afghanistan’s 40-million population and signal Canada’s support for global internationalism.

Afghan women, pictured May 7, 2012, lining up at a UN World Food Program Distribution Point in Herat, Afghanistan. The onerous 14-year military commitment by Canada to Afghanistan means we need to spearhead emergency solutions for Afghanistan’s bereft citizens, before millions of deaths occur this winter due to famine and mass starvation, writes Erika Simpson.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/United Nations/Eric Kanalstein

Opinion

BY ERIKA SIMPSON

November 24, 2021

The well of human sympathy upon seeing Kabul’s international airport besieged has d...

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