I wish I had that answer. In fact, that's a question that we have posed repeatedly to members of Parliament here in Canada, in the U.K. and in Europe, asking, what is the hesitation?
There are a few things that come up sometimes. One is that they say that they're afraid of of targeting innocent people, the forced conscripts. In Iran, adult men have to do two years of military service. It's mandatory. The question, therefore, is whether innocent people will be targeted if they are trying to come into Canada, and the answer is simple. For those who are conscripted, at the end of their two-year term, they are given an identity card that says the day that they enlisted and the day that their service ended. If it shows that it's approximately in that two-year mark, then one can differentiate them from somebody who has spent their life serving the IRGC.
Also, people have the choice. When they do their military service, they can choose the army or the IRGC, so already they are making an informed decision by choosing. For those who have low clerical jobs working in an office at the IRGC, again, their position is listed on the identity card, so we can bypass them, if that's the real concern here, but we're never given the real reason.
That's why I say to please let us know what the impediment is. We have the legal experts. We have the task force that is happy to solve these matters. If it's a question of cost in terms of getting more RCMP, more CSIS members to control this, well, you have to ask yourselves, what is the cost of a human life?
I know it's coming here to Canada. We are already seeing assassinations happening and kidnappings. The next thing you know, we will have terrorism on Canadian soil, and then how will each one of you be able to look in the faces of the Canadian public and say why we did not list the IRGC on the terrorist list?