Canada terror rules hamper aid as Afghans face humanitarian crisis and winter looms
Opposition parties and aid groups say the Trudeau government is dragging its feet in carving out exemptions to anti-terrorism laws to allow humanitarian groups to reach desperate people in Afghanistan.
That would mean supporting the terrorist group, which has been listed as such under Canadian law since 2013. That same month, public servants warned Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly of challenges Canadian organizations were facing in Afghanistan before she met with former female Afghan parliamentarians.
“They’re working on options right now with the ministers of Public Safety and Justice,” Sajjan said in a Thursday interview. “I just want to stress, it’s not preventing us from actually providing the funding to the Afghan people themselves,” Sajjan said.This month a coalition of 18 groups, including as the Canadian Red Cross and Islamic Relief, decried the Liberals’ “disheartening lack of urgency in acting to remove the barriers.”