Madam Chair, I would like to begin by reminding members from the governing party what it is we are actually speaking about today. We are talking about the oppressive and brutal Iranian regime, the very regime that for 47 years has perpetrated atrocities on its own people and supported and wreaked havoc throughout the whole Middle East region and other places around the world.
Let me bring up a couple of examples. Justice 88 is a group that commemorates, on an annual basis, what happened in 1988, when this very brutal Iranian regime decided to arbitrarily murder 30,000 people it claimed to be political prisoners in its prisons in one shot.
Majid Reza Rahnavard was a very vibrant young man who dared to speak truth to power and wanted democracy in his own country. Not only did the Iranian regime murder him, but hanged him from a crane in Mashhad so that anybody driving by could see that, if they dared speak one word against the regime, they would hang there dead for their fellow citizens to see.
Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old young lady who was wearing a hijab, but it was not to the liking of a particular IRGC monster who wanted it lowered to her eyebrows. When she questioned why, she was brutally murdered. Many members stood up and made statements in the House about Mahsa Amini, I want to remind the hon. members in the House.
Another atrocious monster programmed the machine, pushed the button and fired not one, but two missiles into a civilian plane, flight PS752, murdering 55 Canadians, 30 permanent Canadian residents and a total of 176 people, including children.
This is who we are talking about when we are talking about de-escalation and diplomacy. We cannot have diplomacy with people who behave like this. These are not normal human beings.
Here in Canada, Iranian communities are living in fear that someone is in our community who is going to squeal on them and something is going to happen to their families back home or they will live in danger in their own homes in the communities that we represent. I represent an area of the York region that is the heart of the Iranian Canadian community in Canada.
Repeatedly, we have seen these things, yet we see a Prime Minister who has decided to be radio silent in Parliament on this issue. He has not stood in his place, he has not addressed Parliament and he has not voiced any opinion except when someone puts a microphone in his face wherever he is travelling around the world doing his own things. Four different times, he has changed his mind on how he sees the effort of the United States and Israel and the incursion into Iran. What they are doing is trying to help the Iranian people get their country back and to have their own voice. It is a very inconsistent and incoherent message coming from the Prime Minister of Canada. It is unfair to Iranians. It certainly is unfair to all Canadians, especially Canadians in a very vibrant, dynamic Iranian community.
Flip-flopping on issues like this is not advisable at any time, but especially in this particular instance.
Today, I gave notice of a motion at the citizenship and immigration committee that would, amongst other things, do a few things to address the abysmal record of the immigration file of the Liberal government's seven ministers in the last 10 years. In a nutshell, in the interest of time, I asked to expedite the deportation of non-citizens known to be IRGC operatives and to release the name of the individual reported on February 6, 2026, who asked and obtained the right for his name not to be revealed, who is known to be an IRGC operative. The names of all IRGC operatives and all people threatening people in our communities in Canada must be disclosed expeditiously so people in Canada can live safely.
Iranian Canadians and Canadians across our nation deserve to live in safe communities. Canadians have a right to live in safety. It is the responsibility of the Prime Minister and the government to ensure that we unequivocally support the overthrow of the brutal Iranian regime and return the beautiful country of Iran back to its people.