A former top general says it would be "unconscionable" for Ottawa to allow the family of an Afghan translator who risked his life to help Canadian soldiers to be deported back to Afghanistan.

Retired general Rick Hillier, a former chief of the defence staff, said it would be appalling if Canada failed to help the ex-translator's sister, who fled to Turkey from Afghanistan but has been denied permission to remain in that country.

"That would be unconscionable, if she ends up getting deported from Turkey and has to go back to Afghanistan to live under that brutal Taliban regime — who hate women just as a starting point," Hillier told The Canadian Press in a recent interview.

"We can do better."

The woman and her children fled Afghanistan and the Taliban in 2018. That was too early to qua

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