Time to fix the asylum-seeker double standard

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser’s says ‘the number of factors that we do not fully control remain significant’ when it comes to helping Afghans seek asylum in Canada, but the double standard with how Ukrainian refugees are processed needs to be addressed. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

April 20, 2022

“Is our blood different than the Ukrainians?” That was the question former Afghan Canadian Armed Forced interpreter Ahmad Shah Sayed asked the House Special Committee on the Situation in Afghanistan on April 11. And for all of the movements and rhetoric from the federal government in the months...

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