Pushing back against a lawsuit filed by employees of a law firm in Afghanistan that did work for the federal government, Ottawa is telling the Federal Court it has no direct responsibility for any danger the plaintiffs find themselves in now.
Twenty-four former employees of an Afghan law firm employed by Ottawa prior to the Taliban takeover in 2021, together with a former security guard employed by the Canadian embassy in Kabul, launched a lawsuit last September over what they call unreasonable delays in processing their immigration paperwork.
In its reply to the lawsuit, the federal government said the court should consider Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s
