[CaptainCrunch]

What the F kind of plan is this?


https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/vetera...rger-1.5526694

OTTAWA -- Afghan interpreters and Canadian veterans say the Immigration Department is failing Afghans who worked with Canada in the war-torn country, despite an announcement last week to fast-track their resettlement.
Rahim, who worked as an interpreter with Canadian soldiers via NATO in 2016-17 and whose full name is not being disclosed for safety reasons, says Taliban fighters burned his father's home to the ground on Monday in punishment for his service to coalition forces.
He is staying with relatives in Afghanistan and, like two other former interpreters The Canadian Press spoke with who are already in Canada, fears for the safety of his extended family as the Taliban seizes swaths of the country.

Government officials have told him he must provide documentation of the destroyed home to prove his parents are under threat, he said, but the property is in a district now controlled by the Taliban and effectively inaccessible to those on the run.
On Wednesday the Immigration Department released an application form to be filled out within 72 hours, but veterans groups say it is not clear whether applicants' siblings, parents and extended family members under threat from the Taliban will be eligible for resettlement.
However, in an email sent to interpreters and obtained by The Canadian Press, the federal government said the program applies only to "Afghans who were integral to Canada's efforts in Afghanistan" and their family members.
Family members are defined as a spouse or common-law partner, child aged 21 or younger, or an adult child who "has depended substantially on the financial support of the parent since before attaining the age of 22."
"That's just not how the Taliban is drawing lines on who's included versus who's not," said Andrew Rusk, co-founder of advocacy group Not Left Behind.
"When you start thinking about these restrictions, these timelines and these barriers, you're putting a significant volume of lives at risk. And the moral leadership isn't coming from the government right now; it's coming from the veteran community, and that doesn't feel right," said Rusk, whose sister was Canada's first female soldier to die in comb

And putting a 72 hour window is unbelievably stupid. This is Afghanistan, not New York.

Robin Rickards, a veteran who served three tours in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2010, said he and other current and former soldiers have been swamped with emails and phone calls for help with the newly released application from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Published in English, it requires up to 10 different document scans and demands Adobe Acrobat in a country with low literacy rates and patchy internet service.
"We are literally drowning," he said. "Had they contacted any of the individuals who were involved with this before they launched this, we could have guided them on how to structure an orderly process that wouldn't have created chaos on the ground."

"I have zero faith that this is going to work.