“The Iranian regime is the primary source of terror, chaos, and violence, in the Middle East and throughout the world,” he wrote on X on April 13.
“Canada must finally list the IRGC as a terrorist organization and pass my
Bill C-350 to hold the regime accountable. This regime is a threat to Israel, to Canada, to its own people, and to all people everywhere.”
Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, the party’s deputy leader, posted a video on X on April 13, showing a segment during the
March 22 question period in Parliament in which she challenged the federal government’s five years of inaction in still not having designated the IRGC as a terrorist group.
“Appeasement emboldens terrorists and terror states,” she wrote in a
separate post on X following the attack.
Conservative MP Michael Chong, shadow minister for foreign affairs, also expressed solidarity with Israel. “Conservatives stand by Israel. We unequivocally condemn the Iranian regime’s attack on Israel. The regime is demonstrating once again, as it did with Hamas, that it is the source of regional instability,” he wrote on X on April 13. He also called on the Liberal government to work with allies to ensure Israel’s security and regional stability.
Mayor Steven Del Duca of Vaughan, Ontario, also expressed his support for Israel and the Jewish community in Canada and globally.
“Today’s attacks against Israel by the Iranian regime must be unequivocally condemned in the strongest possible terms,” he wrote on X on April 13. “I stand with the people of Israel and the Jewish community here in Vaughan and around the world during this difficult time.”
Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, referenced the conflict in the region without explicitly mentioning the Iran attack. “In all parts of life, but especially in war, it is crucial to understand the difference between the temptations of impulse and the wisdom of understanding consequences. Second, remember how rare it is to be angry and smart at the same time. Anger drives out both empathy and the ability to listen,” he wrote on X on April 14.
Mr. Rae noted that a United Nations Security Council debate on April 14, focused on the “situation in the Middle East,” will provide a chance for all “to listen, but also engage in the conversations that point to the difference between signals and noise.”
‘World’s Largest State Sponsor of Terrorism’
Protesters in Toronto, waving Palestinian flags and holding up smoke grenades and anti-Israel banners, cheered upon hearing the breaking news of Iran sending attack drones to Israel, shows a widely circulated video posted on X by Toronto lawyer and commentator Caryma Sa’d on April 13.
Referring to the video,
Independent MP Kevin Vuong stated that those cheering for Iran’s strike were effectively endorsing the regime’s numerous human rights violations and crimes, such as the downing of flight PS752, the murder of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi, and the training and equipping of Hamas for the attack on Israel last October.
“When you cheer for the Islamic regime in Iran, you are cheering for the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism,” Mr. Vuong wrote on X.
Also sharing the video on his social media account,
Mayor Jeremy Levi of Hampstead, Quebec, said it offers “compelling evidence indicating that the pro-Palestinian demonstrators are actually pro-Hamas demonstrators: Amid news of Iran’s attack on Israel, the crowd in Toronto erupted in cheers.”
Ms. Ghamari, noting that her family fled the Islamist regime in Iran, wrote on X on April 13: “Why is it always the Non-Iranians who support the terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran? As an Iranian-Canadian, it makes me sick to my stomach to see my fellow Canadians openly supporting a terrorist Islamofascist dictatorship that murders innocent Iranians.”
“This is not the Canada my parents immigrated to in order to escape persecution by the terrorist Islamofascist Ayatollahs,” she added.
