In Iran, conscripts don't pick their military branch. A random draft system assigns 18 year olds wherever it wants. Punishing someone today over a draft location they were randomly assigned to makes zero sense.
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@AliEhsassi Happy thanksgiving MP @AliEhsassi
Please keep supporting the Iranian former conscripts who have been affected very badly by the policies of the government.
Let’s be honest, Conscription is not a right measure to find IRGC thugs. But the way IRCC treats the applicants is wrong
@AliEhsassi@pfragiskatos@JulieDzerowicz@MichelleRempel Please bring affected families’ concerns to Parliament. Ask questions, seek clear guidelines and press for fair treatment of former conscripts and their children. Families need your voices—and your action.
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@AliEhsassi You promised to support Iranian conscripts. Honouring that promise would show your genuine commitment to justice and the Iranian community. Iranians will remember those who stand with them and return that support with lasting trust, respect, and confidence in your leadership.
Happy Thanksgiving @AliEhsassi,
You said the IRGC designation would not target innocent forced conscripts.
Today, many Iranians with mandatory conscription records are being treated as if they were IRGC members. That is not what was promised.
You have told affected people that you support them. We now need action, not reassurance.
Please raise this directly with the Ministers of Immigration and Public Safety and push for clear guidance distinguishing forced conscripts from genuine IRGC members.
@MarkJCarney@LenaMetlegeDiab@gary_srp@pfragiskatos@SameerZuberi@BradRedekopp
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Happy Thanksgiving, @AliEhsassi 🍁
For many Iranian families in your riding and across Canada, this holiday is filled with fear. Former Iranian conscripts are receiving refusals because of forced service they never chose.
Their Canadian children are spending Thanksgiving worried about losing their fathers or being sent to live under the regime their parents fled.
As Iranian representative, you can make a difference. Please push for clear guidelines and fair, individual assessments for former conscripts.
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Thanksgiving should be a time for gratitude and family—not fear that a parent may be deported because of compulsory conscription decades ago. Canada can protect its security without confusing forced conscripts with genuine IRGC members.
@MarkJCarney#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
These men moved to Canada to escape state control, but forced conscription from their youth is still following them here. Stuck in immigration limbo for years after coming across the world for freedom makes zero sense.
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Canada must issue clear guidelines for IRCC and CBSA to distinguish people forced into compulsory conscription from genuine IRGC members. Mandatory conscription alone should not be used to punish innocent applicants. Protect national security through fair assessment.
After years of changing immigration policies, Iranian families—who worked hard, studied, paid taxes, and applied for Canadian PR—are finally reaching the moment their efforts should pay off, they face obstacles due to mandatory military service, over which they had no control on.