Blacklock's Reporter

The Department of Foreign Affairs closed its embassy in Kabul though it knew Canadian citizens remained trapped inside Afghanistan. Cabinet had claimed all Canadians were “safely on their way back to Canada.” The department would not account for poor planning after a 2019 federal report correctly predicted Afghanistan “could collapse quickly” once U.S. forces withdrew: “The only reason rockets are not raining down on Kabul today is because of the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan.”