Joly calls Afghanistan evacuation ‘messy’ as MPs hear of challenges on the ground
, as Conservatives questioned her department’s decision to install a plaque commemorating the August 2021 airlift.
But a senior Global Affairs Canada official, Weldon Epp, told the committee the effort was made more difficult because Ottawa had fewer resources on the ground, given that Canada had decided to close its embassy earlier than some of its peers. Their comments follow earlier testimony from senior soldiers who said the effort was hampered by a lack of preparedness and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to call a snap election.
He had said that’s part of the reason “we only managed to pull out maybe about 15 to 17 per cent of those critical interpreters who soldiered alongside us.”
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