The Current for Sept. 10, 2021
Today on The Current:
How did the federal party leaders fare in Thursday night's election debate? Matt Galloway puts that question to three political veterans: former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt; former NDP MP Libby Davies; and former Liberal MP Catherine McKenna.
Then, we continue our series of special interviews — Afghanistan: In the Shadow of the Taliban. Fawzia Koofi was Afghanistan's first female deputy speaker of parliament, an advocate for women's rights, and part of the government's negotiation team that engaged in peace talks with the Taliban. The Taliban has tried twice to kill her, and she escaped Afghanistan last week after being put under house arrest. She wants the world to exert pressure on the new regime, to protect the lives and freedoms of those living under it.
We'll also speak to an Afghan family separated by the Taliban takeover, and desperate to reunite. Anna lives here in Canada; her sister Mariam is still in Afghanistan. Their father is also there, in hiding because years ago he helped imprison Taliban members who have now been released and are looking for him. The Current is not revealing their real names out of fears for their safety.
And Najla Ayoubi is a lawyer and former Afghan judge, who served as legal advisor for the country's state ministry of parliamentary affairs. She talks about decades of change in Afghanistan, and why the Taliban may find a country very different from their last regime.