(Ottawa) After resisting for several years, the Trudeau government added the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the list of Canadian terrorist entities.
Federal Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc will announce the addition of this entity to the Canadian government’s blacklist on Wednesday, in what should be the last day of parliamentary work before the summer break.
He will confirm the information first reported by the CBC network, which La Presse was able to confirm.
The Liberals have long resisted this request repeatedly made by the Iranian community in Canada, especially since the crash of a civilian aircraft shot down by the Iranian regime as it was taking off from Tehran airport on January 8. 2020.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nevertheless suggested last January, in a ceremony commemorating the air tragedy, that he could move forward with this inscription.
The Conservative Party has been clamoring for this measure for several years. On Tuesday, the deputy head of the party, Melissa Lantsman, pleaded in the House of Commons that it was an electoral gesture, while a complementary election looms on the horizon next Monday.
Experts have highlighted the challenges of enforcing this type of sanction.
Designating the IRGC as a terrorist entity would impose a colossal burden on Canadian intelligence agencies, according to Thomas Juneau, associate professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, in September 2022.