Juno News - Ontario MPP： “Put the IRGC – the ruling party of Iran – on the Canadian terrorist list”

00:00:00.000 Canadians should be unapologetic about who we are and what we stand for Canadian values are

00:00:04.760 distinct and they are worth defending today I speak to an elected official and a great Canadian

00:00:09.360 who lives by these values I'm Candice Malcolm and this is the Candice Malcolm Show

00:00:13.240 hi everyone thank you so much for tuning into the podcast don't forget to like this video and

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00:00:37.440 podcast so Canada is and always has been a great country in a chaotic and destabilized world Canada

00:00:43.140 stands for peace for freedom for hope and opportunity based on a tradition of rights and

00:00:47.820 responsibilities that date back over eight centuries we've never been a country defined

00:00:52.020 by creed ethnicity or even a shared religion instead we are united by our ideals our values

00:00:57.660 namely our commitment to freedom to peace order good government to pluralism and to Canadian

00:01:02.580 patriotism a few weeks ago I wrote a column about how Canada needs to get serious and start a

00:01:06.960 conversation about our values and how to defend them what it means to be Canadian this is especially

00:01:11.640 true against a backdrop of a postmodernist education system that promotes gloom and nihilism and frankly

00:01:17.880 hatred of Canada and with practically an open border immigration policy that welcomes millions of

00:01:23.040 newcomers without any expectation that they will integrate they will embrace Canadian values that

00:01:28.080 they will adopt a Canadian identity and without requiring them to leave their tribalistic feuds and

00:01:33.220 hatreds from the war-torn countries that they fled the failed countries that they fled leave them behind

00:01:38.220 well shortly after I wrote that column someone sent me a speech that was given in Queen's Park Ontario's

00:01:43.420 provincial legislature was a female elected official giving a remarkable speech about what Canada means to 0.99

00:01:48.900 her and how sadly some of the worst instances of tribalism and bigotry that she left behind in

00:01:54.840 the Middle East have followed her to Canada I'm going to play part of that clip for you right now because

00:01:59.400 I think it's so fantastic and something that all Canadians should see so this is Ottawa area MPP Goldie

00:02:05.080 Gamma Ray on October 23rd 2023 you know Madam Speaker when my parents immigrated to Canada in 1986 I was a year

00:02:13.560 old and the reason that they immigrated to Canada from Iran is because in 1979 there was an Islamic

00:02:21.440 revolution and our once free and democratic country was taken over by radical Islamists so my parents 1.00

00:02:29.280 escaped in 1986 because they wanted to live in a free and democratic society and I was a year old at the

00:02:35.820 time and we were blessed to be able to come to Canada to escape that hatred to escape that radical

00:02:45.480 fundamentalist Islamofascist ideology and so when we came to Canada my parents raised myself and my younger

00:02:55.980 sister always telling us how blessed we are to be Canadian and we should always put Canada first never

00:03:04.440 forget your heritage never forget your culture never forget your background but always remember

00:03:09.960 that you are first and foremost a proud Canadian and what that means madam speaker is you come here

00:03:18.600 to embrace culture and diversity and and accept people for who for who they are and you leave the

00:03:26.960 problems of your home country behind always remember that first and foremost you are a proud Canadian

00:03:34.060 what a beautiful sentiment for immigrant parents to teach their young children really truly a

00:03:38.920 remarkable speech Golda Gamera is a progressive conservative Ontario member of the provincial

00:03:43.660 parliament representing the riding of Carleton prior to being elected in 2018 she was an international

00:03:48.880 trade lawyer and commercial litigator she was born Iran as she mentioned in that clip and her

00:03:53.860 family escaped the Islamic regime and came to Canada she has been dedicated to fighting against the

00:03:59.580 radical Islamist who run the Iranian regime and she's been particularly vocal in recent weeks as we've

00:04:04.680 seen some pro-Hamas activists taking to the streets and protests across the country so Golda Gamera

00:04:09.900 welcome to the podcast thank you for having me and you corrected me on the pronunciation of your

00:04:15.060 last name I thought it was Gamera but it's Gamera so my apologies for that that's okay no worries

00:04:20.280 actually uh it's funny uh my sister and I sometimes use the code word Gamera as uh like a little

00:04:26.900 password so we use that password like one of our wi-fi passwords so yeah oh that's funny okay well I

00:04:33.380 wanted to start by asking about that remarkable speech that you gave on October 23rd so why don't

00:04:38.440 you just tell us what compelled you to deliver those marks and specifically why did you talk about

00:04:43.040 how your parents always taught you to put Canada first do you think that's a common sentiment amongst

00:04:48.660 newcomers to Canada that they put Canada first um so I mean when I stood up I wasn't really sure what I

00:04:55.280 was going to say I didn't have um anything planned out I just knew that I wanted to to speak because it

00:05:02.120 was an issue that that's of such importance to me and um you know ever since my speech I've received

00:05:11.100 emails from hundreds of people um not just in my riding of Carleton but across Ontario and across Canada

00:05:19.560 many of them newcomers uh or you know immigrants from from previous years who said that they share

00:05:28.360 the exact same sentiment as me because I think um you know the majority of people including my parents

00:05:34.900 immigrate to Canada because they want a better life because they recognize and they understand the

00:05:39.940 possibilities that a country like Canada provides the the potential futures that Canada provides

00:05:49.560 the opportunities that Canada provides and that happens because of the way Canadian society is

00:05:58.160 structured and so you know that's why people like my parents immigrate here is to uh become part of

00:06:08.140 that community to embrace those Canadian values and to to to raise their children um Canadian well that's

00:06:17.040 wonderful and I'm very pleased to hear uh that you got that reaction and that so many Canadians felt the

00:06:22.180 same way uh in in your speech you also were very critical of the pro-Palestine rallies that we've been

00:06:28.500 seeing you mentioned that there are have been genocidal chants um what do you think we should make of

00:06:33.900 these uh what do you think Canada should do uh when protests are not advocating for peace for instead

00:06:39.760 when protests sort of turn nasty and start advocating for terrorism and for groups like Hamas who promote

00:06:46.480 genocide well like you know um the previous government has made it very clear that hate rallies have no

00:06:52.640 place in Ontario um I know that the prime minister has said something similar but then he's kind of

00:07:00.840 gone back and forth on it and and hasn't been very clear on where he stands which is a little bit

00:07:05.760 unfortunate because I think uh you know any sort of chants or behaviors or marches or rallies that promote

00:07:14.080 hate or terrorism have no place in Canada and don't belong in Canada um it's it's unfortunate I know

00:07:21.420 that um the the previous federal government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced a piece of

00:07:27.460 legislation that would have made the glorification of of acts of terror illegal in Canada but Justin Trudeau

00:07:34.020 repealed that or didn't allow it to go through so unfortunately right now there's this loophole that allows

00:07:41.820 certain groups to make certain genocidal chants or to shout um things like

00:07:50.180 or gas the Jews or um you know we heard about that imam in Montreal who was preaching off of a balcony to 0.87

00:08:01.580 20,000 people at a pro-Palestine rally and in that sermon he's basically saying kill the Zionists I mean 0.54

00:08:07.900 how is that even Canada like that that's something that's the kind of behavior you would see in like

00:08:14.400 a radical islamo-fascist country like the terrorist islamic regime in Iran like you don't see that in 0.61

00:08:19.660 Canada that's the kind of behavior that my parents immigrated from to to get a uh immigrated to Canada 0.92

00:08:26.160 to to get away from right like we know what that behavior is we see that in Iran all the time 0.87

00:08:33.980 unfortunately because the behavior that we're seeing right now in Canada certain behaviors certain

00:08:39.280 um very anti-semitic ideologies or chants these all stem from ideology that's been perpetrated

00:08:46.760 and exported by the terrorist islamic regime in Iran a regime that denies the holocaust a regime that is 0.91

00:08:54.360 incredibly anti-semitic a regime that um constantly says that they're going to eradicate the the

00:09:00.580 zionist regime um and we're seeing those exact same talking points here in Canada in 2023

00:09:07.900 it's interesting you you've been exposing and ringing the alarm bell about islamists and specifically 1.00

00:09:13.760 regime members people from the islamic regime in Iran living in Canada able to go about their business

00:09:20.920 you know it's it's interesting because back under again the previous uh federal harper government

00:09:26.700 Canada expelled the Iranian diplomats that ended uh diplomatic ties Trudeau has sort of been warmer and softer

00:09:33.440 but it's still very surprising to me that there would be senior uh members you know of of the regime

00:09:39.860 living in Canada uh able to just sort of carry on their business without being bothered uh the other day

00:09:45.900 we saw a rally where someone was waving an islamic republic flag you know i've seen um many people wave

00:09:53.100 Persian flags the the same colors but instead of the uh islamic republic logo a lion um but i hadn't

00:10:01.000 seen that uh sort of the ayatollah's flag in Canada before it was really sort of chilling so why don't 0.94

00:10:07.260 you tell us a little bit more about the research that you've been doing and what Canada ought to do

00:10:10.800 about regime members living in our country so there was a global uh news special that came out a couple

00:10:17.680 weeks ago from um an iranian reporter named nigor mojtahedi and she had done a very in-depth uh review

00:10:27.000 and research on islamic regime sympathizers and people from iran who sympathize with the islamic

00:10:32.260 regime who are in Canada and uh there's currently at least um 700 known islamic regime sympathizers who

00:10:39.720 are in Canada and uh Trudeau has done nothing about that um and like you said a lot of them come here

00:10:48.560 and and live these free lives in Canada and enjoy the benefits of being in a Canadian society after

00:10:56.560 everything they've done in Iran and and i think part of the reason i mean i can't prove this but my

00:11:01.600 educated guess would be part of the reason why they're able to come here is is money whether they're

00:11:06.940 sort of economic immigrants or um you know the the i would just say in that case the easiest answer is

00:11:14.680 to follow the money what we can do what what justin Trudeau could do if he actually wanted to

00:11:19.860 is to put the irgc the islamic revolutionary guard corps which is basically the um the ruling party

00:11:27.400 uh to put everyone involved in the irgc on the Canadian terror list what that would do is that

00:11:33.180 immediately uh ban anyone from coming to Canada whether as a uh you know on visitor basis or or

00:11:41.560 permanent resident uh permanent basis it would also ban all um commercial activities and uh any assets

00:11:48.880 that were in Canada would be frozen um so it would you know provide an economic uh sanction within Canada

00:11:55.720 right away um and it would definitely um give more uh ability and more weight for authorities to go

00:12:06.780 after those who are in Canada who are affiliated with the Islamic regime Iran but Justin Trudeau has

00:12:12.680 not done that we don't know why this is something that the Iranian Canadian community has been calling

00:12:18.580 for for several years um most notably in the past three almost four years now since um the Islamic 1.00

00:12:27.480 regime shot down Ukraine flight PS752 back in January of 2020 initially when they did that they said

00:12:35.260 um the Islamic regime blamed it on Canada and the United States saying that this was some sort of

00:12:42.120 Zionist conspiracy theory and one thing you'll notice with the Islamic regime is everything to them is the 0.99

00:12:47.920 Zionist conspiracy theory so for the first three days the Islamic regime claimed that that this was

00:12:53.300 Canada and the United States and a Zionist conspiracy cover-up but after three days when more and more

00:12:59.700 social media footage was emerging showing what actually happened the Islamic regime finally had to

00:13:06.140 acknowledge that they themselves had shot down Ukraine flight PS752 killing 55 Canadians on board as well

00:13:15.240 as 30 permanent residents um and who were among the 176 passengers and crew who were all um basically

00:13:24.220 murdered when when the plane was shot down so ever since then Iranians have been trying to get the IRGC on 1.00

00:13:32.800 the terrorist list and Justin Trudeau refuses we still don't know why he refuses to put the IRGC on the

00:13:38.580 terrorist list what I do know is that one of his MPs um an Iranian MP actually from Richmond Hill

00:13:44.920 Majid Johadi back in 2016 initiated a petition to try and re-establish diplomatic relations with the terrorists and

00:13:54.700 illegitimate Islamic regime which made no sense to the Iranian Canadian community and that actually left a sour taste

00:14:02.900 in a lot of people's mouths a lot of Iranian Canadians mouths and uh yeah there's um there's a lot of people who uh took took

00:14:11.920 offense and took issue with um that MP trying to re-establish diplomatic negotiations and re-open the Iranian

00:14:22.060 uh embassy in Canada so that might also provide a hint as to why Trudeau won't put the IRGC on the terrorist list

00:14:29.700 I believe that's the same MP who during uh a large uh round of protests uh Iranians in Canada and around the world

00:14:37.540 uh were protesting the regime's crackdown on civilians on children all kinds of things uh I believe that's

00:14:43.380 the same MP who told Canadians to respect the democratically elected government of Iran um he

00:14:50.100 later had to walk that back because obviously there's no kind of democracy or elections in Iran uh Goldie I

00:14:56.300 wanted to ask you just a final question we're seeing a lot of protests a lot of rallies in Canada uh you know

00:15:02.400 some of these protests border on being sort of openly pro Hamas openly uh promoting uh very barbaric

00:15:10.000 practices and ideologies and I think it's hard for many Canadians to sort of walk the line of what

00:15:15.840 what is considered Islamophobic and what is considered legitimate criticism of extremism uh or or or even

00:15:23.680 promotion of terrorism I know you recently tweeted about how you're sort of strong advocate of women's

00:15:29.120 rights in the Middle East um but that you failed to make a distinction between extremist practices

00:15:34.560 and the broader Muslim faith so I'm wondering if from your perspective where is that distinction

00:15:40.240 because the term Islamophobia is a bit murky it's not always clear what is meant by it and some people

00:15:46.240 interpret it as being a criticism of Islam which is is meant to be banned so uh what's your perspective

00:15:51.840 on that yeah so my my tweets have always been within the context of the terrorist and illegitimate

00:15:57.200 Islamic regime Iran and you know I always refer to it as Islamofascism um as opposed to to Islam or 1.00

00:16:03.520 Muslims um I can't see how sometimes some of the things I say uh might take it out of context could

00:16:09.840 be referred to or it could be interpreted as uh referring to everyone um the the challenge is

00:16:16.560 at this point I'm not quite really sure what is considered Islamophobic and what isn't

00:16:20.560 I was reading a recent article where I know the CRA is attempting to audit a couple of

00:16:26.320 I guess Muslim non-profits or Muslim charities and uh one of the advocacy groups um was arguing that

00:16:33.680 the CRA attempting to audit these Muslim groups is Islamophobic um and that's a

00:16:40.000 argument they made to a judge in Canada now I don't think the judge actually uh I don't think the judge

00:16:45.680 bought that argument uh didn't buy by the claim that CRA attempting to audit a Muslim group is Islamophobic

00:16:53.040 but I think it just goes the it just shows the challenge of um trying to criticize certain radical

00:17:00.640 ideologies um and then you know being painted with with this brush uh I think it's just very important

00:17:08.800 that uh any criticism of any religion it should always be made very clear that you know this isn't a

00:17:16.720 you know you're not you're not painting the entire community you're not painting um the entire practice

00:17:23.440 you're just talking about something very specific so for example you know one of the criticisms I have

00:17:28.400 made is that to me it makes no sense that the United Nations voted to have the terrorists and

00:17:35.200 illegitimate Islamic regime in Iran which is an Islamophascist dictatorship um have them be the head of the 1.00

00:17:41.680 United Nations Human Rights Council like to me it just doesn't make sense and I don't think to any 0.62

00:17:47.120 rational person it wouldn't make sense um that a brutal dictatorship that murders and hangs children

00:17:56.960 in the name of Allah by the way that's that's what they do that's why they're Islamophascists because 0.94

00:18:01.760 they use religion to legitimize 0.79

00:18:05.760 their fascist behavior and there's actually a term for it in Farsi in Farsi we refer to Islamophascism

00:18:15.440 as Vilayatif Fati and uh like that's a whole other episode that we could go into but essentially

00:18:21.840 uh what it does is it is it gives the supreme leader the divine authority to dictate anything that

00:18:30.880 they want in the name of of Allah so you know to me it makes no sense that you have this Islamophascist

00:18:37.120 dictatorship who hangs children um be the head of the United Nations Human Rights Council so to me

00:18:46.560 my personal opinion is that we have these international humanitarian organizations or

00:18:51.120 institutions that seem a little bit compromised right like how how could you not be compromised when

00:18:56.800 you have people voting for the Islamic regime in Iran to be the chair of the human human rights council

00:19:03.040 so oh I think it's yeah I think it's a matter of being very very clear and succinct in in the

00:19:09.040 criticisms in order to make sure that people understand the context absolutely and I think

00:19:13.760 you're completely right about the UN I I recently saw uh someone on social media post a picture of an

00:19:20.880 individual who was both a member of UNRWA which is the United Nations uh branch that focuses on refugees in

00:19:26.480 Palestine who also happened to be a member of Hamas so he was both um and I think that that kind of

00:19:31.520 shows the compromise there well Goldie I really appreciate your time I appreciate all your effort

00:19:35.760 I know you have such a big following out there so many people look at you and admire the work you do

00:19:39.680 and admire your voice and your strength so thank you so much for taking the time and keep keep doing

00:19:44.720 what you're doing thank you so much for having me on anytime uh I'm sorry I kind of I think I ran it on

00:19:49.760 a little bit too much but uh happy to come back anytime and then talk great wonderful thank you so much

00:19:55.520 that's Goldie Gamare an MPP in Ontario I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show

Juno News - November 28, 2023

Ontario MPP： “Put the IRGC – the ruling party of Iran – on the Canadian terrorist list”

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