Hundreds of interpreters and approximately 100 Ghurkas working at the Canadian embassy in Kabul are being abandoned by the Trudeau government after he promised to keep them safe and bring them home to Canada.
According to multiple diplomatic and security sources, it will be “extremely difficult” for Canada to get anyone out of the country at this time. Thousands of Afghans are occupying the Kabul airport, and chaos has taken over the country.
Many western nations, including Canada, have no explicit or tangible plan to get these people out.
The United Kingdom and the United States have soldiers on the ground and are undertaking major operations to evacuate their nationals and staff from Kabul.
Diplomatic and security sources are telling me (multiple in each category) that it will be extremely difficult for Canada to get anyone out of the country.
— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) August 15, 2021
This news exploded the very same day that Trudeau called an election in Canada, and the situation has since grown even more dire.
Harjit Sajjan, Canada’s Defence Minister, is already busy campaigning rather than coordinating an operation to save the people who helped Canada’s troops during the 20-year long war.
While Saijan once lied about being the architect of Operation Medusa, a major Canadian Forces operation in 2006 to dislodge the Taliban from Kandahar, the emperor has no clothes when push comes to shove.
While there is a 17 member Canadian evacuation team in Kuwait right now, they have not been given orders to deploy to Afghanistan and that the situation on the ground is “grim” and in “disarray.”
CAF sources have said that “the election is using all of Ottawa’s bandwidth.” It is clear where the Trudeau government’s priorities lie, and it is not with the people of Afghanistan who served alongside our men in uniform.
A year and a half ago, Trudeau bowed to the terrorist-supporting Iranian leader who killed 176 people on Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752. It’s only natural that he takes such a lackadaisical stance toward the civilian allies left to die at the hands of the Taliban.
