When a Government 'Delists' a Terrorist Group, it Shows how Political the Process Really is

20 years ago the Canadian government decided to list the Iranian group MeK as a terrorist group. Ten years later a different government elected to 'delist' it. Why? Had it changed its ways? If not, what does this say about the whole process? Borealis comes out against the whole process of listings, calling it more or less useless.

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Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute (PDI). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation.

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(2012) Canada drops Iranian group MEK from terror list, but secret branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard added to roster of terrorist organizations. Canada is dropping an Iranian group that once allied itself with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from its official list of terrorists. In taking the MujahedineKhalq, or MEK, off the list, the Conservative government is following the lead of the United States and the European Union. The Tories provided no reasons for delisting the MEK, or for opting to keep 43 others on the list.

Government of Canada lists 13 new groups as terrorist entities and completes review of seven others. FromPublic Safety Canada. Canadians expect their government to take all necessary steps to keep them safe, while safeguarding their values, their rights and freedoms and the open, inclusive character of our country. The Criminal Code listing regime is an important tool for countering terrorism in Canada and globally, and is part of that commitment. The Government of Canada has placed 13 new groups on the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities, including four ideologically motivated violent extremist groupsAtomwaffen Division, the Base, the Proud Boys and Russian Imperial Movement.

Listing the Proud Boys as a ‘terrorist entity’ is mostly about politics. In the wake of the disaster that was Washington on Jan. 6 part riot, part “insurrection,” part “coup,” part “terrorism” a lot of people were perhaps taken aback by just how angry and violent a portion of the American public has become. Sure, we have all heard of white nationalism/supremacism, but I am fairly certain that most did not think they would ever see scenes such as those that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol.