For those who don’t quite understand Canada’s parliamentary system of government, a Member of Parliament (MP) elected to the House of Commons in Ottawa is similar to a Congressman in the House of Representatives. MP’s in Canada are eligible to be chosen to form the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, i.e., appointed as government Ministers to oversee various departments, for example, the Department of Health, Department of Public Safety, etc. Then there is the former Department of Citizenship and Immigration that was once headed by Chris Alexander, the fine Conservative Minister of Citizenship and Immigration under the former Harper Government (and former ambassador to Afghanistan), but then the Liberal Trudeau government changed that department to the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to reflect the priority it was placing upon refugee settlement into Canada.
With that said, an important player in the settlement of refugees is Canada’s Minister of Democratic Institutions, Maryam Monsef, who is part of a cabinet committee in charge of “supervising the influx of Syrian refugees”; yet her main responsibility is perhaps a heftier one, that of electoral reform; i.e., overhauling Canada’s democratic system. A troubling new revelation has emerged: Monsef is not an Afghan as she claimed to be, but an Iranian. Now, she “could be stripped of her citizenship without a hearing under a law the Liberals denounced while in opposition.”
Monsef was showcased in a heartfelt story in January, in which she deceptively reflected on her childhood as an Afghan refugee and how she overcame obstacles to rise to the heights of being appointed by Trudeau to his Cabinet as the Minister of Democratic Institutions.
The dishonesty and broken moral compass of Maryam Monsef is appalling. In a sadder feature, a paralyzed Afghan teen artist referred to Monsef as her “idol”, prompting Monsef to state that the teens story was a “reminder of the resilience of the human spirit that even in the most difficult conditions individuals can do great things…. I am flattered by her attention, and I hope I can serve as a positive role model.”
Another interesting influential appointment: Trudeau appointed Sharia law advocate Omar Alghabra to the position of Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Muslim Brotherhood front groups are said to have been successfully (and alarmingly) targeting the Canadian Parliament.
Some other interesting stirrings in Canada:
- A prominent imam in Canada revealed his goals of dawah, Sharia and to establish the “ummah” in Canada
- It has recently come to light how the Muslim community was mobilized to help Trudeau become Prime Minister of Canada.
- “Trudeau has repeatedly declared that he is ‘deeply disturbed’ by the increasing Islamophobia in Canada, and joining governments from around the world in condemning such heinous acts towards Muslim communities”.
- Six Canadian cities signed a charter against Islamophobia.
- While Trudeau warned of jihadists returning to Canada, he visited a terror-linked mosque in the name of diversity.
Regarding Maryam Monsef, one has to ask the question of why background checks failed to reveal that she was lying about being an Afghan refugee. Perhaps those “checks” were as efficient as some of those at airports that let women (or men) concealed in burqas pass through TSA screening while everyone else faces the degradation of x-rays and/or pat-downs. But the Liberals are already in defensive mode on Monsef’s behalf:
The minister’s office did not respond to a question about the place of birth recorded on Monsef’s citizenship, permanent residency and refugee applications, saying in a statement only that the minister “is committed to addressing this matter and has stated she will work to resolve it.”
Monsef, meanwhile, is brazenly defending herself, forgetting that she is a public servant and attempting to cast her scandal as a mere personal matter, stating:
Who I am has not changed and this is something that my family and I will work out together. However, my commitment to (her constituency of) Peterborough-Kawartha, my commitment to this file, they’ve not changed.
They haven’t changed? Really? As a Minister who lied about being an Afghan refugee when she was an Iranian, and was appointed to be in charge of overhauling Canada’s electoral system and also given a mandate to resettle incoming refugees, one would hope that much has changed.
Meanwhile, Global News did a report that included a video with the caption: “WATCH: Afghan cabinet minister Maryam Monsef’s refugee story changes.”
The reported also stated:
The narrative of Monsef as a successfully integrated refugee and the first Afghan-born MP has been a central one for the Liberal government since it won power last fall. Monsef was even singled out by U.S. President Barack Obama during his address to Canada’s Parliament this summer.
Now here’s a kicker: Obama pointed to Monsef as….
an example of what’s possible when refugees are embraced in this land of immigrants and strangers.
“Maryam Monsef could be stripped of her citizenship without a hearing after revealing she was born in Iran”, by Joan Bryden, National Post, September 27, 2016:
OTTAWA — Maryam Monsef could be stripped of her citizenship without a hearing under a law the Liberals denounced while in opposition but which they’ve been enforcing aggressively since taking power, civil liberties and refugee lawyers say.
The democratic institutions minister revealed last week that she was born in Iran, not Afghanistan as she’d long believed. She said her mother, who fled Afghanistan with her daughters when Monsef was 11, didn’t think it mattered where the minister was born since she was still legally considered an Afghan citizen.
Monsef has said she will have to correct her birthplace information on her passport.
If Monsef’s birthplace was misrepresented on her refugee claim and was relevant to the ruling on her case, her citizenship could be revoked, regardless of whether it was an innocent mistake or the fault of her mother, said immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman.
She could even be deported, said Waldman, part of a group that launched a constitutional challenge of the law Monday.
The minister’s office did not respond to a question about the place of birth recorded on Monsef’s citizenship, permanent residency and refugee applications, saying in a statement only that the minister “is committed to addressing this matter and has stated she will work to resolve it.”
The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association argue that the citizenship revocation law, known as Bill C-24, is procedurally unfair and a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Josh Paterson, the BCCLA’s executive director, said Monsef’s case demonstrates the absurdity of the law, which was passed by the previous Conservative government.
“The minister’s situation … is exactly the kind of situation that many other Canadians are facing right now because of this unjust process,” Paterson told a news conference.
“When we get a parking ticket, we have a right to a court hearing … You leave your garbage in the wrong place and you get a ticket, you have the right to a hearing and yet for citizens to lose their entitlement to membership in Canada based on allegations of something they may or may not have said 20 years ago, they have no hearing? It just doesn’t make any sense.”
When he was in opposition, John McCallum denounced the law as “dictatorial” and since becoming immigration minister, he’s promised to amend it to create an appeal process, Paterson said.
Nevertheless, repeated requests that the government stop enforcing the law until it can be changed have been ignored. As recently as two weeks ago, Paterson said Justice Department lawyers informed his group that the law would continue to be enforced.
Indeed, he said the Liberal government has been enforcing the law “aggressively,” setting targets to strip 40 to 60 Canadians each month of their citizenship.
McCallum said Monday that the government is “certainly considering options for changes” in the law. He did not say why the government is enforcing it with such zeal in the meantime.
His department, meanwhile, denied that it imposes a target for the number of revocations each month. But it does have “performance standards targets” to ensure it has the resources to efficiently review and resolve cases.
According to the department, 206 individuals have been stripped of their citizenship since May 2015 — about 18 per month….
Under the law, a single government official acts as investigator, prosecutor and decision-maker, Waldman said. A person who receives a notice of citizenship revocation has no right to a hearing or an appeal and has no chance to argue that he or she ought to retain citizenship on humanitarian grounds.
The Federal Court issued a temporary stay of proceedings in a number of revocation cases earlier this year, but Waldman said that relief is available only to those who can afford a lawyer.
The purpose of Monday’s legal challenge is to win a stay for all Canadians who face the loss of their citizenship.
Earlier Monday at an electoral reform event, Monsef shrugged off a suggestion from Conservative leadership contender Tony Clement that she should step down as minister pending an investigation into her citizenship application process.
The confusion over her birthplace is “a very big deal for me personally and for my family,” she said.
“But who I am has not changed and this is something that my family and I will work out together. However, my commitment to (her constituency of) Peterborough-Kawartha, my commitment to this file, they’ve not changed.”

Mark A says
I’m sure the Trudeau government will do everything in its power to resolve this situation in Monsef’s favour.
Don’t expect any repercussions against Monsef from the Trudeau government.
Lynne says
Who she is, is someone who two years earlier was going back to Afganistan to live. How does that show her loyalty to Canada?
When are the Liberals who promised transparency going to do that?
Their sense of entitlement and frivolous spending is reckless.
Rob Porter says
Mark, I think you are absolutely right. Islam-sympathetic, morals-destitude Justin Trudeau won’t be bothered by the most important aspect of this case, that Maryam Monsef is a fraud and a liar. Anyway, in Canada today lying is not regarded as a serious offensive. After a long legal fight with a few bureaucracies over the death of a family member, I, infuriated by lies told by a number of bureaucrats, pointed out to a Toronto lawyers the lies told and that these amounted to perjury. Replied the lawyers, “You must remember that in Canada today perjury is not considered a serious offence”. “What a reflection on the state of morality in Canada today,” was my response.
Shane says
Liberals and muslims practive similar strategies, Taqiyya for muslims, and lies for liberals. Both groups are ruthless and amoral when it come to promoting their polices. Elect Trump who will secure our borders, deport dangerous illegals, and decrease the number of muslim immigrants.
pbay says
he will make the country look like Sweden with 55 no go zones
Don McKellar says
No doubt when Crooked Hillary becomes president, she and Huma will become fast friends. The two taquiyya witches behind the curtains, pulling the strings of two leaders who will jump through any hoop and ignore any ugly truth to be politically correct and follow the great left-fascist agenda with regards to Islam.
pbay says
They are lovers, not friends
Rob says
The Canadian (or American) Dream is increasingly for migrants and decreasingly for native-borns.
David says
Item #2 above is what I have been saying from the start. At the closing of the maritime voting he was ahead something like 85 sears and nobody could catch up. Also, his constituency holds a vast number of mosques.
Everyone needs to see this. It is fantastic!
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/09/28/yes-deplorables-are-uniting-all-over-the-world-against-globalism-and-islamism/
linnte says
This video made me smile. Very nice, thank you!
abad says
She ought to be deported back to Iran then
Allan says
No, she should be deported to Afghanistan. Let her find her own way to Iran.
Patrick A Ludwick says
Burn the BITCH! Send her back to her pitiful and discussing country.
Maxsteele says
Fantastic article and shows the hypocrisy of the Liberals. Trudeau literally bent over for the Muslim vote in the last election and has zero ethics himself. He is all about taking selfies and this piece of crap fake refugee lied and tried to claim her mother never told her of her true nation of birth (even though she lived in Iran until she was 9 years old). Then it came out that in her home riding-surprising it is also London, ON, where the Imam advocating for Sharia also lives and many Canadian Islamic converts who have tried and failed to join ISIS originate–that they have known for years she is really an Iranian and she was open about it.
Yet, in Canada we have an even more ignorant electorate, and crony mainstream media, than in the USA(if you can believe that), so zero will happen to her.
Banislam says
Deport asap.
particolor says
I wouldn’t let a Muslim near a Cash Register let alone the Cabinet !!
BLC says
Little comment from the illustrious Justin Trudeau about his cabinet minister lying about the country she was born in. He’s off in his globalization dream where Canada is a “post-national” country. Deport Monsef? Trudeau is too caught in his own “vision” of Canada to do that. Poor Canada!
Holo says
Now I understand why most of the migrants coming to Canada are Muslims, just like in the US! Trudeau i has betrayed Christians and this Judeo-Christian country. It’s scandalous that he put a Muslim in charge of immigration.
Meanwhile 1.5 million Syrian and Iraki Christians have been forced to leave their homes and live in misery in other parts of their country or in surrounding countries. They usually don’t have the money to pay smugglers and don’t dare go to the camps where they are attacked by Muslims (even in Germany and Sweden!). We are duty-bound to help them come to Christian countries, or if they want to stay, help them locally. They are suffering genocide, as the EU Council and Parliament and also the US Government has stated, yet hardly enyone mentiones this.
Desperate times. Holo
Nan Barr says
I think the Pope does NOT want the Assyrians or Chaldean Catholics to leave the Middle East. No matter if they hurt or starving.
I know Assyrians Catholics in a city in California saw their Priest was removed by the Bishop for advocating and fund raising to try to bring them to the West.
I do NOT know what the Orthodox Christian positions are on this subject.
bradthefuzz says
Based on what is written, she was 11 when she fled Afghanistan, she did not even know she was Iranian. To me that looks like a technicality. My thoughts–she is a highly sympathetic character and there is now a constitutional challenge to this law of revocation. The big picture, they want to toss out the law, so use a highly sympathetic character with what looks like a mistake that could happen to anyone.
Not sure of why writer says her moral compass is “deplorable” based on the facts presented in the article, but highly probable Trudeau wants the law out and she is useful toward that end.
Lioness says
Another muslim lier to advance their agenda. She must step down and resign from parliament, then stripped of her citizenship. But nothing will happen; Trudeau will support her because she is a liberal and a muslim, and this combination renders her practically untouchable. If she was a conservative and a Catholic, for instance, the liberals would certainly be crying foul.
linnte says
I still know the street address and telephone number of the home of my birthplace in Flint Michigan. We moved to Flushing when I was nine. I don’t see how someone could forget their place of birth. Considering Canada removed the Iranian embassy it’s most likely that the mother, knowing Iran was considered hostile to Canada, changed the place of her origin deliberatly to Afghanistan for citizenship. I wonder if Canada will look into all this families real nationality records?
And this one case is a perfect example of how vetting people is pointless.
ICH says
I truly truly despise Trudeau as much as Obama.
I was on a cruise and a dude from USA ( obviously a lib )
was all smitten by how good looking Trudeau was.
I was like wtf.
Even USA is full of these idiots.
Richard Courtemanche says
Stripped of her citizenship! Don’t hold your breath, we might have an Islamic government.
dcw leftcoast says
39% of Canadians voted for the vacuous Trudough . . . . they luved Oby so much they wanted their own Clueless despot leader.
Trudough was videoed at a Wahhabi mooosque dressed in their garb and kneeling on a prayer rug repeating the believers’ prayer . . . some think he may be a convert.
He is definitely a low level thinker, as his short career as drama teacher and camp councillor will testify.
But riding on the name given him by his loonie marxist father Pierre and his lovely locks enough of the handout class voted for this fool.
The woman in question was likely hand picked to run for the Lieberals by Justin . . . she will get a pass as the insane left always do . . . don’t wait for the Canadian media to speak out . . . they are neutered eunuchs!
Angemon says
Couple of things here:
1 – That she was trusted without verification and placed into a position of power should raise suspicions about the competence – if not honesty and agenda – of the Trudeau administration.
2 – “a law the Liberals denounced while in opposition but which they’ve been enforcing aggressively since taking power”. Is it any wonder that actual liberals have taken to call themselves “Libertarians” or “Egalitarians”? The term “liberal”, as several other terms that have become a part of the mainstream lexicon, has been co-opted – if not outright taken – by people who are anything but it.
Proud Canuck says
The Trudeau gov’t will not deport her, they will do what they think is the right thing for the Liberal gov’t and secure their votes from his Muslim buddies! My father was an immigrant to Canada after WW2, although his agenda was to come here for a better life, not to change Canadian values and traditions.
Highsider says
If you think that the USA is any better off after 8 years of executive jihad, you are horribly mistaken.