Thank you.
The Quds Force is a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Like other branches of the guards, it makes no sense to target just the Quds Force. If you look at the Revolutionary Guards' DNA, first of all, it started off as an Islamist militia, as I explained, and it's maintained that militia identity throughout in the way it behaves.
The IRGC as a whole uses terrorism, militancy, hostage taking and hijackings. It's not just the Quds Force. The entire Revolutionary Guards Corps undergoes ideological indoctrination. Radicalization accounts for more than 50% of the Revolutionary Guards' training, and that's for all Revolutionary Guard members. It's not just the Quds Force.
The content in that indoctrination material—I've assessed this and published a report on it—is explicitly clear that it is violent and extremist in nature, and no different to the content that prescribed groups, from the likes of ISIS and al Qaeda to Hezbollah, use to indoctrinate their fighters.
On Hezbollah, it is designated in Canada. The IRGC created Hezbollah. The IRGC wrote its charter. Hossein Dehghan, IRGC commander in the 1980s, wrote the Hezbollah charter. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp today is Hezbollah's biggest support financially and militarily, and in terms of training and logistics. If Hezbollah warrants being on the list, there is no reason why the IRGC, its main arm and founder, should not be on the list too.
You cannot draw a distinction between the Quds Force and the Revolutionary Guards. The Quds Force is a mere branch of the Revolutionary Guards as an entity.