Ziad Aboultaif at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On June 5th, 2024. See this statement in context.

June 5th, 2024 / 6:15 p.m.

Conservative

Ziad Aboultaif Conservative Edmonton Manning, AB

Thanks, Chair.

Thanks to the witnesses and welcome to the committee.

I'll start with Professor Kholdi.

We know that the network of the IRGC in Canada is quite big. It's branched in different shapes, from money laundering to smuggling to weapons to drugs to everything. We know that's to feed back illegal cash to the regime. This illegal operation has been going for years in Canada.

Is calling for or recognizing the IRGC as a terrorist organization the first serious step to start fighting their existence in Canada—yes or no?

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