NDP MP Heather McPherson calls for transparency on distribution of inauthentic Canadian government travel documents to hundreds of Afghans trying to escape the Taliban in 2021
Current and former cabinet ministers should be called to testify before a parliamentary committee about the distribution of inauthentic
Her demand for transparency backs calls from the Conservatives for an immigration committee probe of the use of the documents, called visa facilitation letters. Senator Marilou McPhedran said in a court filing last week that her officein 2021, saying they had been granted visas to come to Canada and asking they be allowed to travel to the Kabul airport to board their flight.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner last week called for the immigration committee to launch an investigation of the allegations surrounding the facilitation letters. “To know that some insiders were able to help and others weren’t is a massive problem,” she said. “As a New Democrat, I was doing everything I could to get Afghans to safety. Nobody sent me a document to get Afghans out. Nobody gave me anything that would make it easier. I had to go through the regular channels; I want to make sure that the government was going to the correct channels as well.”
. However the scale of her work and the details of what she and her staff did were not explained until she filed an affidavit in Federal Court last week. Ms. McPhedran filed the document on behalf of a group of Afghans who are taking the government to court in an attempt to force it to honour the letters.
The source also said that when Ms. McPhedran sent the list of 640 Afghans in receipt of the facilitation letters to the immigration minister’s office, she did not specify that those letters had been issued by her office.
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