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Navies have been taking hits. They pulled the Eisenhower a few days back after getting damaged.
So the Eisenhower won’t be dispatching a rescue team for the UN employees held by the Houthi’s then. Wouldn’t want to endanger the hostage takers (sorry, detainers) anyway.
Hurrah. Finally. At last, the Trudeau Liberals have listed as terrorists the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of the most dangerous organizations on the planet. I’m sure this has NOTHING to do with the bi-election in St Paul’s on Monday 24th with its significant Jewish population…nothing at all…
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The fact it has taken them so long to do something so simple is an indicator that national and world security is not a high priority for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Of course, the Chinese election interference debacle has told us that already…but better late than not at all…
Trudeau’s inaction could be down to sheer incompetence or smug complacency. Maybe a combination of both. But let’s not rule out political expediency.
Six years ago, Trudeau, Mélanie Joly, now foreign affairs minister, and Dominic LeBlanc, now minister for public safety, all voted for a motion to list the IRGC as terrorists.
Following that, the Liberals did nothing.
Four years ago, the IRGC shot down Ukraine International Airlines PS752, killing 176 people including 55 Canadians and 30 permanent residents. The families of the victims have been calling for the listing of the IRGC for years.
The IRGC killing a large number of Canadians still didn’t prompt Trudeau to act.
Three years ago, a petition was presented to the House of Commons calling for the IRGC to be listed.
More of nothing.
And yet in Canada things were happening. The IRGC was issuing death threats against Canadian citizens, Iranian spies and affiliates were flooding the country, and the Iranian regime was using Canada as a giant money laundering operation. Link above…
Michael Higgins: Liberals realize IRGC is a terrorist group now that it's politically convenient — National Post
Trudeau acts because of politics, not people
Trudeau’s inaction could be down to sheer incompetence or smug complacency. Maybe a combination of both. But let’s not rule out political expediency.
Six years ago, Trudeau, Mélanie Joly, now foreign affairs minister, and Dominic LeBlanc, now minister for public safety, all voted for a motion to list the IRGC as terrorists.
Following that, the Liberals did nothing.
Four years ago, the IRGC shot down Ukraine International Airlines PS752, killing 176 people including 55 Canadians and 30 permanent residents. The families of the victims have been calling for the listing of the IRGC for years.
The IRGC killing a large number of Canadians still didn’t prompt Trudeau to act.
Three years ago, a petition was presented to the House of Commons calling for the IRGC to be listed.
More of nothing.
And yet in Canada things were happening. The IRGC was issuing death threats against Canadian citizens, Iranian spies and affiliates were flooding the country, and the Iranian regime was using Canada as a giant money laundering operation. Link above…
The Trudeau government’s shocking apathy on the IRGC has had real consequences.
As usual, Trudeau has talked a good game on Iran and wallowed in the applause and cheers as he criticized the IRGC and the Iranian regime.
In October 2022, Trudeau gave a speech while attending a protest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who died at the hands of the Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab.
“We will do everything we can to stand against the Iranian regime,” he said, and the crowd went wild. And why wouldn’t they? Here was the prime minister pledging to take action.
“Enough of the brutality. Enough of the repression. Enough of the violation of fundamental human rights.” More cheers.
The speech was as impassioned as it was facile.
“I will stand with you. I will march with you. I will hold hands with you,” said Trudeau, before concluding with remarks in Persian.
It was all hogwash.
The Liberals continued to call out the IRGC for being a terrorist organization but refused to list it as such.
As usual, Trudeau has talked a good game on Iran and wallowed in the applause and cheers as he criticized the IRGC and the Iranian regime.
In October 2022, Trudeau gave a speech while attending a protest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who died at the hands of the Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab.
“We will do everything we can to stand against the Iranian regime,” he said, and the crowd went wild. And why wouldn’t they? Here was the prime minister pledging to take action.
“Enough of the brutality. Enough of the repression. Enough of the violation of fundamental human rights.” More cheers.
The speech was as impassioned as it was facile.
“I will stand with you. I will march with you. I will hold hands with you,” said Trudeau, before concluding with remarks in Persian.
It was all hogwash.
The Liberals continued to call out the IRGC for being a terrorist organization but refused to list it as such.
Meanwhile….Iran was using Canada as a safe haven from which to operate.
Two years ago, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said there were “credible” reports that Iran was threatening the lives of Canadians — in Canada.
Last year, Global News reported that Masih Alinejad, a U.S. human rights activist and journalist, was warned by the FBI not to travel to Canada because she would not be safe from the long terrorist arm of the IRGC.
“That’s heartbreaking. Canada should be safe,” Alinejad told Global.
It was also Global News that reported that about 700 Iranian affiliates were in Canada getting up to all sorts of skullduggery, not the lest of which was money laundering.
Earlier this year, Finance Canada officials told a parliamentary committee that $100 billion is illegally laundered in Canada each year.
After the hearing, the Conservatives pointed out that the IRGC was certainly one of the groups involved in that crime.
“Trudeau’s refusal to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity means that the regime’s illegal money laundering in Canada goes undetected according to testimony from Finance Canada officials yesterday,” said a statement from the Conservatives…hmmm…
“One can equate it to a large, corrupt mafia group comprising 150,000 members involved in money laundering, transnational terror, selling drugs on the black market, expropriation of property, extrajudicial killings, targeted assassinations, cyberwarfare and the spread of Islamist propaganda,” she said. Good times indeed.
Two years ago, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said there were “credible” reports that Iran was threatening the lives of Canadians — in Canada.
Last year, Global News reported that Masih Alinejad, a U.S. human rights activist and journalist, was warned by the FBI not to travel to Canada because she would not be safe from the long terrorist arm of the IRGC.
“That’s heartbreaking. Canada should be safe,” Alinejad told Global.
It was also Global News that reported that about 700 Iranian affiliates were in Canada getting up to all sorts of skullduggery, not the lest of which was money laundering.
Earlier this year, Finance Canada officials told a parliamentary committee that $100 billion is illegally laundered in Canada each year.
After the hearing, the Conservatives pointed out that the IRGC was certainly one of the groups involved in that crime.
“Trudeau’s refusal to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity means that the regime’s illegal money laundering in Canada goes undetected according to testimony from Finance Canada officials yesterday,” said a statement from the Conservatives…hmmm…
“One can equate it to a large, corrupt mafia group comprising 150,000 members involved in money laundering, transnational terror, selling drugs on the black market, expropriation of property, extrajudicial killings, targeted assassinations, cyberwarfare and the spread of Islamist propaganda,” she said. Good times indeed.
Governments, theirs or ours, operate a lot like organized crime. They just like to say they do it "with the consent of the governed." Of course, that's what organized crime says, too. "I just make a product (or service) available. I don't force anybody to buy it."