Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that there are some existing standards that we could be using in order to evaluate whether a conviction was achieved in a fair manner, whether this country does this traditionally and whether, in the particular case, the conviction was arrived at fairly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of a person who is accused of terrorism—did you say accused or convicted?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. There are two issues that would need to be evaluated. One is addressed in the bill, and one I think should be addressed in the bill. The first part that is present in the legislation is that the actual terrorist offence that they were convicted of in the other country needs

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Exactly. What I'm suggesting, though, is a country where the terrorism charge is a purely political one. We'd actually have to evaluate whether—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me here today. I want to give credit; many of the ideas I'll be discussing today were formulated with my friend Danny Eisen, who's with the Canadian Coalition Against Terror. I just wanted to mention him by name.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  You mean the recent visit by the inspectors? I think what they found is that they were once again turned away from accessing very important locations and very important information. So I think that's creating much more fear instead of less. There is a lack of transparency—which w

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, it is. It does fall under the IRGC command centre. There is one degree of separation, so it's not one of the primary branches, but it is immediately under that. It is intrinsically connected to the IRGC.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, senior leaders have been designated under SEMA, as have specific branches of the IRGC, as I've mentioned. So it is a good question: what will the terrorist listing do that SEMA has not? I tried to address that. First of all, the targeted parties will be broader. Not every b

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Oh, right, you asked about that before. I cannot point to specific names or companies right now, but first of all, that's something I can look into for you—although it takes a considerable amount of research, and one of the arguments we are making is that this job actually should

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Has there been...? I missed the last part.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, that is a concern. Whether sanctions are hurting the people they're intended to hurt or whether they're hurting innocent people instead, there's no question that the Iranian economy has suffered as a result of the sanctions. Inflation is high. Unemployment is high. Their cur

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Certainly part of it can be religious disagreements. Members of Baha'i are certainly a very threatened minority within Iran, and that should be a primary human rights concern for those who are paying attention to human rights violations in Iran. As for other considerations, the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In terms of the structural way that the government works, that does tend to not be so private. That is information that people can access in terms of what conscription means in the country.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's fine.