The Hon. Erin O’Toole, Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, and James Bezan, Shadow Minister for National\u00a0Defence,\u00a0released the following statement regarding the airstrike carried out by the United States against terrorist\u00a0Qasem\u00a0Soleimani:<\/p>\n
\u201cIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has\u00a0long been a tool of repression and violence in Iran and across the world, which is why the Conservative Party brought a successful vote in Parliament in June 2018 to have the IRGC listed as\u00a0a terrorist entity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IRGC\u2019s\u00a0Qods\u00a0Force, led by\u00a0Qasem\u00a0Soleimani, was\u00a0at the\u00a0centre\u00a0of IRGC operations and bear responsibility for violence, destruction and a destabilizing influence across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
\u201cConservatives are proud that the NATO mission in the region is currently under the command of Canadian Major-General Jennie Carignan and we recognize the tremendous service of the nearly 850 members of the Canadian Armed Forces serving in Op IMPACT.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Conservative Opposition once again calls upon the Trudeau government to finally list the IRGC as a terrorist entity after 18 months of foot-dragging. The\u00a0Liberals\u00a0voted for the\u00a0measure, yet\u00a0have done nothing to recognize the destructive and destabilizing influence of the IRGC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Hon. Erin O’Toole, Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, and James Bezan, Shadow Minister for National\u00a0Defence,\u00a0released the following statement regarding the airstrike carried out by the United States against terrorist\u00a0Qasem\u00a0Soleimani: \u201cIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has\u00a0long been a tool of repression and violence in Iran and across the world, which is why the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:40:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27260,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259\/revisions\/27260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}