Three Liberal ministers have declined invitations to testify at the Senate as the upper chamber probes why Canada still won't allow humanitarian workers to help in Afghanistan.
The Senate's human rights committee is expected to begin hearings Monday on federal anti-terrorism rules that bar aid groups from working in Afghanistan.
"We need to try and figure out how to get aid to communities and individuals who are hurting in Afghanistan, without supporting and funding the terrorist organization that is their government right now," he told reporters in Vancouver. Senior legal experts such as Kent Roach have argued that Ottawa is misinterpreting its own laws, given that the federal government has admitted that the Taliban is governing Afghanistan and it is in regular talks with the regime.Others include representatives of the Canadian Red Cross, World Vision Canada and groups serving Afghan immigrant women.
A global grassroots group, End Afghan Starvation, has asked Trudeau to revise "the ceaseless blockade of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan," saying the policy amounts to "collective punishment" of the country's 40 million people. Half the country's population is now categorized as being at an crisis level of food insecurity, including six million people formally at risk of famine.
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