How Canada's bureaucracy is keeping a veteran's Afghan interpreter wife stranded in Pakistan
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Show Notes
In the wake of the fall of Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, Canada has attempted to resettle thousands of refugees, including people who risked their lives helping Canadian Forces during the war.
However, many have faced bureaucratic roadblocks in their attempts to reach the safety of Canadian soil.
National Post political reporter Bryan Passifiume joins host Dave Breakenridge to discuss the struggle faced by a Canadian veteran and his now pregnant wife, a former interpreter who is stuck in Pakistan, what has slowed her arrival in the country, and what is being done to get her and others here.
Background reading: Pregnant wife of Canadian veteran stuck in Pakistan trying to push through Canadian immigration red tape
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