Four men who deployed with the Canadian military to Afghanistan filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal after their families were left out of the special immigration program created in 2021 to help resettle Afghans with a connection to Canada.
“They are letting in Ukrainians who can’t even find Canada on a map, but us? Who risked our lives and now our family’s lives? To them, we’re nothing,” one of the complainants, who worked as a language and cultural adviser for the Canadian Armed Forces, told the Star in an interview.The Star has learned that two of the complainants have settled with the government after mediation.
However, when the Afghan government fell to the Taliban in 2021, family members of LCAs weren’t included in a special program to bring Afghans who worked alongside the government and their families to Canada. Among other things, that program dropped requirements for an overseas medical exam and all immigration fees. It promised 14-day expedited processing of visa applications and placed no caps on the number of applications under the program.
Since the complaint was filed in May, at least two of the men have alleged that their family members have been detained and tortured by the Taliban. “If that were the case, IRCC would be unable to respond in a targeted facilitative manner to any humanitarian crisis without responding equally and simultaneously to all humanitarian crises,” it reads.
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