2024-05-30: QP - Afghan Gender Apartheid & C-41

Senator Gold, Bill C-41 became law last June, creating a framework for Canadian humanitarian aid to be delivered to people in need in terrorist-controlled environments. Under this law, Canada was to create an authorization regime to enable Canadian agencies to deliver aid and shield them from criminal prosecution under anti-terrorism laws. The 2023 annual report of the Minister of Public Safety indicates that no authorizations have been issued.
Knowing how much women are suffering under gender apartheid and under Taliban oppression, how can the government justify such delay in the implementation of Bill C-41?
Last week, the Canadian Feminist Forum on Afghanistan brought together civil society, leaders, academics and parliamentarians to support the codification of gender apartheid through the UN’s crimes against humanity draft treaty, because gender apartheid is not yet forbidden under international law. Joining other senators who have spoken against gender apartheid, I have a question for this government: The Taliban forces Afghan women into silence, but why is the Canadian government choosing to remain silent?
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