The Canadian government recruited some 45 Canadian citizens with Afghan heritage to serve as language and cultural advisers during the mission in Afghanistan, but Canadian efforts to bring their relatives to safety are falling short.
Canadian soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan on June 9, 2009. The mother of six had no idea her Canadian brother was working so close by, just 10 or 15 kilometres away, until the Taliban told her."Your brother is working for foreigners and your life is at risk because your brother works with foreigners," she recalls the insurgents telling her in that first frightening phone call.
Then one day in 2013, her husband was shot dead outside of the family's home on his way to work. She believes he was targeted by the Taliban because of her brother's work with the Canadian military. "I feel that the responsibility is on me because it happened because of me, you know, because of my involvement," said Sam, who lives in Ottawa.
Last year, four language and cultural advisers filed a human rights complaint against the government. Conservative MP Scott Reid called the criteria "perverse," and said they more or less guarantee failure.
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