Finance committee  , as leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition, famously said he had no problem with our troops being in the Middle East even though Iraq invaded the sovereign nation of Kuwait. He had no problem with our troops being over there. However, when the firing started, we would take them back

Finance committee  . He was in charge of that, a very powerful guy. Mohammed Al-Mashat had been the Iraqi ambassador in Washington when Allan Gotlieb was the Canadian ambassador to Washington. What did Al-Mashat do as the serving Iraqi ambassador when we were fighting Iraq in the Gulf War? I can

Foreign Affairs committee   the overdocumentation we've seen in Myanmar regarding the Rohingya or what we've seen in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to the Murad Code. Really, we're trying to deal with many partners—universities, civil society and national authorities as well—and collectively build this common ground where

Foreign Affairs committee   investigating Daesh, ISIS, in only Iraq was 30 million euros, so we are woefully underfunded. I think there are two parts. If all of you, parliamentary legislators and budgetary committees and treasuries, think that the value of international justice is simply in the sound bite

Procedure and House Affairs committee  -terrorism. This is the time when Daesh had overrun most of northern Iraq. There were all kinds of issues in the Middle East at the time. As Mr. Jean and others can explain to you, there are a range of threats that the Government of Canada worries about, from terrorism to domestic

Committees of the House   also be talking about Russia, Iraq or any number of other countries. I would especially like to mention a question I asked a few witnesses the other day. I asked them whether the current government was familiar with China, and the answer was a resounding “no”. I asked them whether

Committees of the House   States and Iran had started attacking each other after the United States killed a high-ranking Iranian officer, General Qasem Soleimani, near the Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020. Iran also attacked an American airport in Iraq on the night of January 7 to 8, 2020, in retaliation

Foreign Affairs committee   have profoundly affected the course of our work as a mission. Both Iraq and Syria have been the source of ongoing issues involving conflict and displacement and refugee issues. The collapse of the elected government of Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban in December of 2021

Committees of the House   Kurds. These are people, typically men, who go across the border into Iraq and bring much-needed supplies such as medicine and food. Supplies are very hard to come by in certain parts of Iran, or the costs are extremely high. These are individuals who are shot at by IRGC border

Committees of the House   see how the IRGC is inflicting violence on people beyond the borders of Iran and how the Iranian regime, through the IRGC and other organizations, is causing human rights violations and upsetting the peace and security in neighbouring Iraq, in Lebanon, in Yemen and even much

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  , and are working towards resolving the situation. We had campaigned for years to get legislation to stop trafficking of women in Iraq, and it was approved in 2012. Now, the extremists in power are using this same legislation against us, to stop us from sheltering women, and to attempt

Canada-China Relations committee   in the case of Iraq in 2003. Colin Powell, as the representative of the United States, went to the United Nations, the UN, to say there were weapons of mass destruction. We later realized that there were none. So there is a tendency to exaggerate the Chinese threat and not give

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  . We really need to open our doors to human rights defenders who are languishing. In the last few days, I've been hearing many really troubling stories from human rights defenders who are stranded in Turkey and Iraq and want to come to this country. These are actual, tangible ways

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   at the time. He took the lead and Nelson Mandela visited Canada first to recognize what he had done. That's exactly what's happening right now, it's an apartheid in both Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in Saudi Arabia. Just recently we've seen that relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   seeing various aspects of discrimination, and I guess it happens in Afghanistan as well in ethnic minorities. We're seeing it in ethnic minorities in Myanmar, Iraq and other countries.