Trudeau announces Amira Elghawaby as Canada's first representative to combat Islamophobia
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Is that the same group that ensures there are menstural products in men's washrooms?It might. I would have to Google it. The federal government plans to get rid of two key offices combatting religious discrimination, merging them into a single Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion. The Offices of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia and the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism will both be abolished.
Feds to replace offices combatting Islamophobia, antisemitism with advisory council — CBC News
The federal government plans to get rid of two key offices combatting religious discrimination, merging them into a single national Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion.apple.news
A suspected high-ranking Iranian official caught living in Canada appeared at his deportation hearing on Thursday as the regime he is accused of serving faced growing condemnation for killing protesters.
Before arriving in Canada, the Iranian citizen was a senior member of his government, according to the Canada Border Services Agency, which has asked the Immigration and Refugee Board to order his expulsion.
But as the deportation case was about to get underway, the alleged Iranian official asked the Refugee Board to ban news reporters from his hearing and to instead move the case behind closed doors.
Global News was not permitted to hear his lawyer argue for a secret hearing. The news outlet was only let into the hearing long enough to argue that the case should remain a matter of public record.
The IRB later banned reporters from publishing his name. No explanation for the decision was given. All “submissions, documents, or any other records in this proceeding” were also part of the ban.
The publicity-shy Iranian is the latest alleged top regime member to face a deportation hearing under a 2022 federal policy banning Tehran’s officials from the country.
Canadian officials say they have found more than two dozen others. “There is simply no good reason to deny Canadians this transparency.” Iranian-Canadian activist Azam Jangravi said those who held “high-level” positions in the Islamic republic government “should be deported” and the cases should be open to the public.
Those forced to flee Iran have long complained that high-ranking officials who helped keep Khamenei’s repressive government afloat have been turning up in Canada and treating it as a “safe haven.”
Videos that have made their way out of Iran show crowds chanting that members of the regime had sent their families to live here in safety. “Their child is in Canada, our child is in prison,” they shouted at one protest.
Canada barred “senior members” of the regime from the country more than three years ago, after a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed while in the custody of Iran’s religious police for publicly showing her hair.
Since then, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has cancelled 236 visas of Iranian officials, and the CBSA has located 26 living in Canada who they allege merit deportation proceedings…but…but immigration enforcement officials have struggled to expel them, with only a single Iranian official sent back to his home country so far. In five cases, the IRB opted to let them remain in Canada. Most (which means not all) of the hearings have been held in secrecy.
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Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi, who represents a Toronto riding with a large Iranian population, said “robust” government measures were deterring regime members from coming to Canada.As for the government’s record of deporting just one regime member in more than three years of trying, he said officials were doing their best.
Deputy Conservative Leader Melissa Lantsman said the government needed to do more. “The Liberals talk tough, but their inaction has turned Canada into a safe harbour for senior officials of the Iranian regime with only one deportation in years to show for it,” she said. “It’s pretty simple: expel regime agents so communities here in Canada can be safe.”
A key source of instability in the Middle East, Iran trains, arms and finances Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias and Yemen’s Houthis, and sells attack drones to Russia for the war on Ukraine.
In Canada, Iran has been accused of laundering money and evading sanctions, and the foreign interference inquiry revealed how the theocracy was targeting the diaspora in an attempt to stifle critics.
Activists and journalists in Canada have been targeted, prompting the RCMP to warn former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler, an outspoken critic of Tehran, that he was the target of an assassination plot.
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Before arriving in Canada, the Iranian citizen was a senior member of his government, according to the Canada Border Services Agency, which has asked the Immigration and Refugee Board to order his expulsion.
But as the deportation case was about to get underway, the alleged Iranian official asked the Refugee Board to ban news reporters from his hearing and to instead move the case behind closed doors.
Global News was not permitted to hear his lawyer argue for a secret hearing. The news outlet was only let into the hearing long enough to argue that the case should remain a matter of public record.
The IRB later banned reporters from publishing his name. No explanation for the decision was given. All “submissions, documents, or any other records in this proceeding” were also part of the ban.
The publicity-shy Iranian is the latest alleged top regime member to face a deportation hearing under a 2022 federal policy banning Tehran’s officials from the country.
Canadian officials say they have found more than two dozen others. “There is simply no good reason to deny Canadians this transparency.” Iranian-Canadian activist Azam Jangravi said those who held “high-level” positions in the Islamic republic government “should be deported” and the cases should be open to the public.
Those forced to flee Iran have long complained that high-ranking officials who helped keep Khamenei’s repressive government afloat have been turning up in Canada and treating it as a “safe haven.”
Videos that have made their way out of Iran show crowds chanting that members of the regime had sent their families to live here in safety. “Their child is in Canada, our child is in prison,” they shouted at one protest.
Canada barred “senior members” of the regime from the country more than three years ago, after a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed while in the custody of Iran’s religious police for publicly showing her hair.
Since then, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has cancelled 236 visas of Iranian officials, and the CBSA has located 26 living in Canada who they allege merit deportation proceedings…but…but immigration enforcement officials have struggled to expel them, with only a single Iranian official sent back to his home country so far. In five cases, the IRB opted to let them remain in Canada. Most (which means not all) of the hearings have been held in secrecy.
Latest alleged Iranian regime official found in Canada wants his identity hidden — Global News
The Iranian citizen wants his case heard behind closed doors.
Deputy Conservative Leader Melissa Lantsman said the government needed to do more. “The Liberals talk tough, but their inaction has turned Canada into a safe harbour for senior officials of the Iranian regime with only one deportation in years to show for it,” she said. “It’s pretty simple: expel regime agents so communities here in Canada can be safe.”
A key source of instability in the Middle East, Iran trains, arms and finances Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias and Yemen’s Houthis, and sells attack drones to Russia for the war on Ukraine.
In Canada, Iran has been accused of laundering money and evading sanctions, and the foreign interference inquiry revealed how the theocracy was targeting the diaspora in an attempt to stifle critics.
Activists and journalists in Canada have been targeted, prompting the RCMP to warn former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler, an outspoken critic of Tehran, that he was the target of an assassination plot.
Irwin Cotler: Canada's special envoy for combating antisemitism | The Jerusalem Post
This article does not do justice to the remarkable achievements of this man.
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That, and Canaduh is one of the few places where you can collect a government pension without ever having paid a dime in taxes.