Federal government looked into airlifts to bring 12,000 Afghans to Canada after Kabul fell

CBC News has learned the Canadian government was hoping to facilitate air travel out of Afghanistan at least up to spring 2022.

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.

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