Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you today and to address a subject that, in my view, deserves more attention than it currently receives in the international debate over Iran. For a number of years now, the international community has understandably sough

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  , Canadian director of policy for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. We'll turn things over to you and give you some time to talk. When you're finished, we'll go to questions as we always do. Please begin.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. As you know, all four aspects of the Iranian threat are intrinsically linked. A regime that seeks nuclear weapons capability is rightly perceived as exceptionally dangerous when it is simultaneous

Citizenship and Immigration committee   and the director of policy for Canada, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Maureen Basnicki. Welcome to the four of you. We will start with Professor Macklin. Each group has up to eight minutes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for inviting us here today. I am pleased to testify on this important bill in my capacity as director of policy for Canada with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and adviser to the Canadian Coalition Against Terror. Like other democracies, Canadian society has

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   situation in Iran, we have two witnesses: Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Matthew Levitt, who is attached to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Gentlemen, you already know that you have about 10 minutes each for your

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's my pleasure. Thank you very much. Honourable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear before you today to discuss the role of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, in a vast system of domestic repression, and to encourage the government of Iran

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   of public international law at McGill University, in place of Dr. Shaheed; and that on May 13, the clerk invite Mr. Ali Alfoneh, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on Iran, to testify alongside Mr. Mark Dubowitz, who is already confirmed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee   the technological issues squared away. In the meantime, we'll have the two witnesses here with us start things off with their presentations. We have, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Sheryl Saperia, director of policy for Canada. Welcome. We also have, from the Alliance

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me here today. I want to give credit; many of the ideas I'll be discussing today were formulated with my friend Danny Eisen, who's with the Canadian Coalition Against Terror. I just wanted to mention him by name.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   our subcommittee. Today we have as witnesses two individuals from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. One is Mark Dubowitz, who has been here before. It's good to see you back again. The other is Ali Alfoneh. Gentlemen, I assume that our ever-efficient clerk has explained

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  , by the Government of Burma, and by the Government of Sudan, among others. It would be of profound, symbolic, and practical importance for the Canadian government to designate the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij Force for their human rights abuses. On behalf of Foundation for Defense

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for providing me with this opportunity to share my analysis with you. Allow me in particular to express my gratitude to you because you do something that most politicians and statesmen in the west do not: you ma

Citizenship and Immigration committee   to look at witness testimony from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. It was by Ms. Saperia. She said: I understand from last week’s hearing that Minister Alexander envisions a two-step process in his ministerial discretion. The first step would be to examine the substance

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was reading a quotation when I was interrupted. I was wondering whether I could read that quotation. It was by Ms. Sheryl Saperia from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Here is the quote again: I understand from last week’s hearing