QUESTION PERIOD — Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Diplomatic Relations with Iran
March 10, 2020
Government leader, thank you for the answer and I hope the government continues to do everything in their power.
My supplementary question has to do with the fact that, a number of weeks ago, Prime Minister Trudeau had a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Iran, shook his hand and actually bowed before the Minister of Foreign Affairs of that brutal regime — a regime that doesn’t respect democracy, doesn’t respect human rights and certainly doesn’t respect the rule of law. And not only did the Prime Minister bow before them, we have this Prime Minister who continues to show contempt for Parliament — this chamber as well as the House of Commons — because, government leader, it has been almost a year and a half since the Parliament of Canada unanimously called on the Trudeau government to list the IRGC on the list of terrorist organizations and it continues to refuse to do so.
Government leader, won’t you agree that it’s absolutely deplorable that our Prime Minister is bowing before a minister of Iran? Won’t you also agree it’s unacceptable that the Trudeau government continues to refuse to list the IRGC on the list of terrorist organizations as per the unanimous call of Parliament?
With respect, I do not agree with either of those assertions.