A brand new particular committee of MPs is about to place the highlight on the Canadian authorities’s dealing with of the autumn of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau known as an election because the Taliban was quickly advancing by means of Afghanistan and got here beneath heavy criticism for the federal government’s dealing with of each the withdrawal of U.S. troops, which had been beforehand deliberate, in addition to the following Taliban blitz.
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What unfolded was a diplomatic evacuation scramble and a humanitarian tragedy following a prolonged, bloody battle in that nation within the wake of the 9/11 terrorist assaults.
The Conservative movement handed with the assist of the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP Wednesday.
Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith additionally voted in favour of the movement.
The remainder of the Liberals voted in opposition to it.
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The movement was put ahead by Conservative Chief Erin O’Toole and duties the brand new particular committee with learning “the autumn of Afghanistan to the Taliban, together with, however not restricted to, the federal government’s contingency planning for that occasion and the next efforts to evacuate” a variety of people.
A Bloc Quebecois movement amended that to mandate the committee’s major goal be on “assessing the humanitarian help to be put in place by Canada to help the Afghan folks.”
The committee might be made up of 12 members: six Liberals, 4 Conservatives, one Bloc MP and one New Democrat.
They may meet for the primary time on Dec. 17 to elect a chair and start organizing their agenda.
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