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Aid groups say Ottawa still hampering work in Afghanistan, despite legislation | CBC News
Canadian aid groups say Ottawa hasn’t cleared roadblocks that bar them from getting aid into Afghanistan, despite Parliament passing legislation this spring and allies issuing carve-outs to their own terrorism laws nearly two years ago. Until this June, aid workers were vulnerable to prosecution under the Criminal Code if they paid taxes for labour or goods to Afghanistan’s Taliban government, because doing so would amount to providing financial support to an entity that Canada lists as a terrorist organization. Parliament passed Bill C-41 in June, which sought to enact a blanket exemption for humanitarian workers providing life-saving aid in response to emergencies. It also committed Otta

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