Ottawa is still reeling from Thursday’s bombshell allegation that then Liberal defence minister Harjit Sajjan personally directed Canadian special forces to rescue more than 200 Afghan Sikhs during the fall of Kabul in August 2021. It was a directive, according to military sources quoted in the Globe and Mail, that diverted critical resources away from the evacuation of Canadian citizens, translators and other Afghans who’d aided Canada’s two-decade-long war effort in the country.