I appreciate that important question about Iran's transnational repression and foreign interference.
While I haven't studied the issue in great enough depth to comment on that particular question, I want to comment more generally on the need to continue holding Iran accountable for its foreign interference and transnational repression, in coordination with our allies.
I would flag that Canada's current policy, when it comes to other countries' considering proscription of the IRGC, is to quietly lobby against it. While we've designated the IRGC, we're encouraging allies not to do so, in order to maintain some sort of link or be able to have some channel there. I think that, with some pressure from parliamentarians, that can hopefully change. As the U.K. is considering it and as our High Commission in London is lobbying against it, it would be important for parliamentarians to send a message that the IRGC should be banned by our allies, as the EU just did and as the U.K. should do.
Within the G7, you referenced foreign interference. There was a very important statement that the government coordinated among the G7 when we were chair, calling out this foreign interference. It seems to conflict with that position to then be lobbying against designating the IRGC, so it might be worth engaging our allies abroad to follow suit. That might be a very effective way to limit our exposure as Canadians to this threat, if our allies join in and share intelligence and law enforcement.