Nearly a year after it closed its embassy in Afghanistan following Kabul’s fall to the Taliban in 2021, the federal government was trying to plan flights out of the country to bring in an estimated 12,000 Afghans it believed were “current and future” clients of Immigration Canada, CBC News has learned.
That information is contained in a memo written for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by the Privy Council Office and sent to him the week ending June 24, 2022. CBC News obtained the document through an access to information request.
“Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and Global Affairs Canada are working with the United States and United Arab
