The federal Conservatives are calling on Ottawa to designate Kata’ib Hezbollah as a terrorist entity, citing U.S. allegations linking the group to attacks in Canada.
In a letter to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urged the federal government to immediately add the group to Canada’s list of terrorist entities.
“Canada should not wait for another synagogue to be shot or another foreign consulate to be attacked before shutting down the terrorist organization allegedly directing these attacks,” Poilievre wrote.
The letter follows terrorism charges laid in the United States against Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national prosecutors allege is a senior commander of Kata’ib Hezbollah and an operative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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As Global News previously reported, U.S. prosecutors allege Al-Saadi helped plan, co-ordinate and claim responsibility for nearly 20 terrorist attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and North America, including the March 10 shooting outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto and an attack targeting a Canadian synagogue.
The RCMP took over the Toronto investigation shortly after the shooting, describing it as a national security case.
In his letter, Poilievre said Kata’ib Hezbollah has been designated a foreign terrorist organization in the United States since 2009 but remains absent from Canada’s list of terrorist entities.
He argued listing the group would make it illegal to knowingly deal in its property or finances, allow authorities to freeze and seize its assets, and strengthen Canada’s ability to prevent members from entering or remaining in the country.
“The Liberals have failed to enforce Canada’s terrorist laws with the urgency and strength Canadians expect,” Poilievre wrote. “A terrorist listing is only as strong as the action that follows it.”
Beyond listing Kata’ib Hezbollah, Poilievre called on the government to disclose how many people connected to Iran’s regime and its proxy groups have been identified, denied entry, investigated, detained or removed from Canada.
He also asked Ottawa to investigate possible links between Iranian-backed terrorist groups and organized crime in Canada and explain what action authorities are taking in response to the alleged Toronto attacks.
CARNEY IS HEAD OF THAT PARTY, PIERRE ! NEVER GONNA HAPPEN
List the libturd party as a terrorist entity
I would vote for Poilievre because he stands up for the working-class, which is something the liberal party has not done even once.
The ineffective LPC will drag their feet, as usual. This is why Carney wasn’t allowed to make decisions at the BoC under Harper.
Carney has been proven out of his depth on complex diplomacy and security matters. He was a corrupted banker before being PM. All he knows is Elbows Up
Poilievre is the reason for global terrorist attacks and higher gas prices, proven! He’s also the reason for Canada’s wildfires, the water bomber shortage, 20-year delays on the F-35 purchases, out of control housing prices and wages slipping behind inflation. Of course he is, because he’s the Prime Minist….wait, he isn’t Prime Minister. Poilievre doesn’t even hold office. He didn’t make any of those decisions. Trudeau and Carney made all those decisions.
Liberals are slow to call these groups out and RCMP are just slow.
@Ben,
I keep seeing your comments on articles, and you seem to carry water for the liberal party. What’s your relationship with them?
Poilievre, of course, wants to follow lock step with whatever his mentor Trump says. Canadians want an independent foreign policy, not one led by the Trump administration. Maybe if Poilievre had his security clearance he would have an iota of credibility!
Ben is absolutely a hilarious Carney bootlicker. Carney has not done anything with the recommendations from the Public Inquiry on Foreign Interference. But let’s hold the Leader of the Opposition accountable instead who doesn’t have the power to keep Canada safe. Carney is the one for that job.
Just blame Poilievre every liberal shortcomings blame everybody blame Trump blame conservatives nothing is there fault,
Just keep lying more and all liberal lapdogs are happy!
Again, the conservatives hear a group is responsible (from the now untrustworthy US) for attacks and they demand that we act on un-verified information. If Canada can verify the notoriously lying US regime’s claim, then YES, declare Kata’ib Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Proof first, but that isn’t the Conservative way. Their way is “a buddy of a buddy told me something he saw on Social Media so we have to act on that NOW!”
LOL the clowns on here flapping about Poilievre. These are the same fools that thought Trudeau was leadership material. Clearly Conservatives could see through his B.S. from day one but it took these Neanderthals 10 years to realize he was a failure. Give it up Liberals, your gibberish is beyond ridiculous.
The elephant in the room is that secretly Carney aspires to be a Tin Pot Dictator. Hence why he hangs out with and makes deals with so many of the worlds most dangerous Despots.
Ben is a few cans short of a six pack.
Carney regime is never proactive always reactive. This group should have already been designated a terrorist group. Carney is always a day late and a dollar short.
Ben. Only you question it. He isn’t required to as he isn’t the PM or in Cabinet. Why hasn’t Carney worked on the recommendations from the Public Inquiry on Foreign Interference? Many experts questions why this is.
Yhe huge elephant in the room is Poilievre’s lack of security clearance. Many experts question why this is.
Plenty of question for Carney regime and lack of action on Foriegn Interference as a Canadian national vetted and approved by the Carney government has been charged for espionage in Belgium while working at NATO.
Ben
August 3, 2026 at 7:36 am
Many Canadians are waking up to the fact that Poilievre still doesn’t have his security clearance.
ben isnt waking up to the fact that no one gives a f8ck about his security clearance. matter of fact Ben just isnt awake at all. F*ck U Troll.
Carney still hasn’t got the Foreign Agents Registry up and running. This could help keep Canada safe, but Carney refuses to so. Carney isn’t serious about foreign interference.
Many Canadians are waking up to the fact that Poilievre still doesn’t have his security clearance.
Libbys donate money to PP to keep him in.
IN this weeks poll, PP tied for second on which would be best Pm with “I don’t know.” He got 18%
Carney got 51%.
Islam is hatred’s purest form
Lane sounds like a total Carney bootlicker.
When will the rest of you L I b t a r d s realise you’ve been fooled ???
Here is an idea; as Islam is the basis for almost all terror how about listing this worldview as a terrorist threat?
Seems Careny turns a blind eye as his voting base won’t like it. Carney didn’t even bring to light the Kosher restaurant in Montreal that was set ablaze by some of his supporters.
Keep Carney in power couple more years and Trudeau starts to look good!
Got some of you stirred have I with an observation I made?
Thats the true spirit of fence post supporters.
LMAO
If CONservatives were to find another leader than this dead brain cell, they might have had a fighting chance. PP is such a loser!!
Yet again Poilievre speaks on something he knows little about because he doesn’t have his security clearance. Shameless!
@ Lane. What pose do you speak of? We know Carney is a total poseur.
Gary Anadasangaree is very incompetent, just like Carney.
It’s ironic that Poilievre, who refuses to get his security clearance, is calling for this. Some say if he had his security clearance he could focus on the real threats to our country.
@Anonymous. I think Bibi and Trump have done ga great job in Gaza. The world is safer no doubt.
Bibi Netanyahoo has killed more children than anyone else in this Bibi war.
Fact.
@ troll “Paulie”
Are you stupid?
You must be a PPer who has never yet denounced killing little children in Gaza by Bibi Netanyahoo the war criminal.
Phuck off until Gaza stops.
Marylin. I heard you are now polling in your riding at 3rd. Even behind the NDP.
What is your plan after the next election?
Carney is a coward and has no problem with this demographic terrain and committing arson against the Kosher Restaurant in Montreal
Is PP back from Detroit yet? He seemed to back trump on the new Gordie Howe bridge, but he didn’t show up/
PP is doing great in the latest poll.
He tied for second with “I don’t know” at 18%. Carney is at 51%.
Let’s keep the whinestone cowboy!
Great Liberace gown at the Stampede!
Lane – you go away. What a vap8d comment.
“Look at the pose over the mic.”
It is a picture framed by an artist. It’s not a rational opinion. It sounds crazy.
No, we do not have a leader. We a Central Banker that has infiltrated our Goveenment.
Look at the pose over the mic.
Go away peer.
We already have a leader.
Hit the door.
And while we’re at it, let’s list genocidal, terrorist Israel as a terrorist entity!
Trump and Bibi did the right thing in Gaza. I have concerns with the military response.
Carney has no problem with the arson of the Kosher restaurant in Montreal. These people PP wants banned probably had a part in it.
Carney and the Liberals have encouraged terrorists and extremism in Canada during their 15 years of Canada’s destruction they have allowed these terrorists into Canada via their open borders policy and now they already have active sleeper cells operating here.
I am from Vancouver and i want to say : The Conservatives support the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon and the killing of thousands of Lebanese People and the destruction of Buildings and Roads in Lebanon. That is support for Terrorist Aggression by Israel against the People of Lebanon. I supports Hezbollah who is trying to drive the Israeli Terrorists from Lebanon.
Cons need to try reverse psychology, libs just vote against juat because.
After a full 16 months as PM, it is obvious Carney is not up to the task. None of his Campaign Promises have been met. He promised a trade deal with Trump and hasn’t delivered. Carney has been a huge disappointment so far and delivered nothing, except a delusional speech at Davos that added no value to the political landscape.
USA intelligence is not credible given past performance. I would rather wait for our own investigation. PP using this for politics as usual.
Ben. PP isn’t the PM or in Cabinet. How does his lack of clearance on one specific issue negatively affects Canadas security when Carney can’t even get the Foreign Agent registry up and running
A good idea. However Carney won’t listen or will delay as he is too busy on summer break hanging out at Davos.
Unfortunately Mark Carney’s Government is sympathetic to Islamic Extremism in Canada. IRGC, Muslim Brotherhood, Samoudin, ISIS are all operating in Canada!
Poilievre likely doesn’t have all the information because he doesn’t have his security clearance, which is outrageous. Some say Poilievre’s lack of clearance negatively affects Canada’s security, and many agree.
You think the Liberals will list those immigrant Liberal voters as a terrorist group? When pigs fly.
The only question on the Liberals immigration form is Will You Vote Liberal? If yes you get into Canada with free housing and food.
Speak for yourself. Eby has made sure you guys in BC will never afford one.
This guy is still yapping?! He doesn’t even have a home!
While I massively hate the Liberals, the Cons have proven useless. Poilievre is all slogans, nothing much else. He seems pretty content to let Carney and his f*scists run amok in Canada and screw the country, collecting a decent paycheck and living free in a mansion we provide, paying for nothing.
Canada’s whole political spectrum is finished. Not one party has a viable leader that I would vote for as a PM. Not one. So, what are Canadians to do when every party fails the country? I mean, look around you. The country is a literal fire. Or flood right now. The culmination of decades of bad government from ALL PARTIES!!
Disasters happening and governments at all levels are useless. All resources are stretched way over the max, or just not there. Firefighters are dying trying to do the job. There is lots and lots of water that we have nothing to get it on the fire with.
Maybe we should bomb the fire with some of the munitions we are buying for Ukraine. Maybe ol Donald could send a strike against the forests here. That vaunted USA might that snuffs out everything.
Crews are battling but losing. Arsonists and the indians are winning it seems. But we have billions for bombs and bullets and Ukraine and FN and everything else but food, safety and help for Canadians!
Our greatest enemy in Canada is the politicians kept in power by rich, ignorant, greedy corporate pukes and stupid blind acolytes. Along with a bought and paid for media!
Canada is in dire trouble. Huge trouble with this current crop of stinking politicians. From Eby the F*scist out here to The Queen of Separation in Alberta, Danielle Smith. Moe showed his MAGA stripes and Wab is just Wab, depthless.
Ontario over to the East is Liberal land. Full of blind and shortsighted acolytes, rich oligarchs who keep these fascists in power for their own gain. The odd one out is Quebec.
Not even a real province, not even trying to be! They take the lions share of everything and have a fed party in parliament whether they get voted in our not who has a disruptive say on everything. More money goes to Quebec from Canada than any other province! Time to cut them loose! Donald can have them!
I’m sick of the division caused by these regimes. I’m sick of the poverty and starvation they cause, while they get f*t and rich off us! POLITICIANS ARE THE SCOURGE OF THE COUNTRY!
As a lifelong conservative, Pierre lost my vote in 2024. He was rightfully supporting Israel after Oct 7, but he then went to the extreme of denying Palestinian identity. He chose to go that extreme when his predecessors used to instead support Israel as well as a 2 state solution.
And if you want to talk about banned Terror groups, then why hasn’t Canada banned the JDL/Never Again, just as its banned in the USA.
Why not listen to the people? We want Israel listed as a terrorist group.
The LPC loves terrorism
They have been excusing and funding it since they were elected