Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here. I appreciate your excellent testimony. It certainly is clear that Canada faces very serious public safety and national security threats as a result of foreign interference.
Mr. Chair, as a result of that, I'd like to give verbal notice of the following motion:
Given that:
Samidoun is a proxy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a listed terrorist organization in Canada since 2003, to raise funds to finance PFLP's violent attacks on Jewish people;
On the first-year anniversary of the horrific October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, Samidoun hosted a protest in Vancouver in which a speaker told the crowd, “We are Hezbollah, and we are Hamas,” and chanted “Death to Canada! Death to the United States! And death to Israel!”;
Samidoun openly supports Hezbollah and Hamas, which are both listed terrorist organizations in Canada;
Samidoun is banned in Germany, with the German government saying they serve as an “international network which disseminates anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda” and “supported and glorified various foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas”;
Samidoun's leadership was deported from Germany in 2019 and denied entry to the European Union in 2022;
Samidoun demonstrations promote Jew hatred and pro-terrorism messages that encourage anti-Semitic threats and violence in Canada.
And given that:
Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, is a Yemen-based terror proxy of Iran that, since the October 7 terror attacks, has disregarded international law by launching attacks on innocent civilians and merchant vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden;
That our closest allies, the United States, Australia, and Israel, have already designated the Houthis as a terrorist group;
Canada has provided logistical support to the armed forces of the U.S. and the U.K. that have conducted air strikes against the Houthis.
The committee report to the House that it recognizes that Samidoun and the Houthis are a threat to public safety and recommends that they both be listed as terrorist entities under section 83.05 of the Anti-terrorism Act.
In fact, Chair, I would like to seek unanimous consent from all parties to adopt this motion now, at this meeting.