Justin Would Have to Care, Be Competent and Have Reliable Allies In Order to Act

That is simply not him:

Canadian expats and Afghans trying to gain access to evacuation flights out of Kabul say they can’t find Canadian soldiers at the city’s airport and aren’t getting sufficient information from federal officials in Ottawa.

Complaints about a slow and ineffective Canadian response contradict assurances from government ministers and federal officials that everything possible is being done to assist Canadian citizens on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as Afghan nationals who are connected to Canada because they or their family members worked as support staff for the country’s military or diplomats. The situation in Kabul has grown increasingly chaotic over the past week as the Taliban have consolidated their control over the city.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan told reporters on Sunday that Canadian Armed Forces personnel are posted at each of the security gates at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. In a briefing Monday, military officials said that Canadian special forces soldiers are working outside the airport’s security perimeter, helping eligible evacuees make it through.

But The Globe and Mail spoke by WhatsApp on Monday with an Afghan-Canadian who has spent the past three nights outside the airport with his wife, two young children, stepdaughter and five other family members.

Abdul Hadi Yusufi said the airport gates are staffed by U.S. soldiers, who would not allow him inside the perimeter, even though he showed them his Canadian passport. There were no Canadian soldiers at any of the gates, he said.

“They [the Americans] looked at my passport and I waved it at them, and they told me, ‘No, just go away,’” he said. “The Canadians are inside the perimeter of the airport. They are not at the outside. We have no contact with them.”

Mr. Yusufi said his wife is an Afghan police officer and that her life would be in grave danger if the Taliban were to arrest her. “If she is caught, she will be butchered in no time.”

** 

Others in the hotel have tried unsuccessfully since to get inside the airfield’s blast barriers. In a story the Post could not independently verify, Ahmadullah said Taliban guards around the airport ripped up one former employee’s Canadian visa and beat him, warning that if he came back he’d be killed.

“He didn’t have hope any more. He said ‘If we wait for Canada, we will die.’”

 

Perhaps so but Justin has an election to run:

Nearly seven out of 10 Canadians think that Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau could have waited until at least next year before calling the current federal election, and a large majority believe he did it now as a “power grab” to win a majority government, according to a new Leger poll.

It's all about him, you see.