Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank my colleague, Heather McPherson. The NDP was the first.... Heather herself, MP McPherson, proposed this study over a year ago. I'm really pleased. We're glad to see it coming to the table now. Unfortunately, it should have been done more than a year ago, but here we are.
I want to bring it back to British Columbia and my riding of Port Moody—Coquitlam.
I'm going to ask Mr. Kholdi a question.
Thousands of Iranian Canadians live in my riding. Many are afraid to see the news when they wake up in the morning around what's happening with “Women, Life, Freedom”. The fact is they do not feel like they're living free in Canada. They are under surveillance here, and they are afraid, sometimes, to go home or they can't go home. They lose family members in Iran. They can't go home. They're living in fear. They're seeing senior members of the regime in and around Vancouver.
I want to talk about how listing the IRGC as a terrorist organization could help Iranian Canadians live freely in this country.