Members of Iranian regime will be barred residence in Canada

by Tonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau
thestar.com
September 10, 2012

OTTAWA—Canada’s immigration minister says he is heeding warnings that members and allies of the Iranian regime are trying to set up residency in Canada.

Jason Kenney said officials have been told to comb through applications from Iranian nationals to ensure anyone deemed allied with or part of the Iranian government — declared last week a state sponsor of terrorism — is barred from entering Canada.

“Many in the Persian community in Canada have been concerned that people, who (they believe) have been close to or members of the regime and their relatives, . . . have in too many cases been able to establish residency in Canada,” he told reporters at a news conference Monday.

“We want to ensure that people who may be inadmissible — that is to say those who perhaps are associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Al Quds force, the Basij, or senior members of the regime — are not admissible to Canada.”

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