Canada’s politically minded, dilettante foreign policy – and our consistently under-resourced implementation capacity – is going to cost us, especially with our allies
Thomas Juneau is a professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
The optimal response to IRGC activities in Canada would be an effective one that targets those doing harm and best protects the victims. But listing the group as a terrorist entity will be complex and labour-intensive, as there are hundreds of thousands of current and former IRGC members, including conscripts. This is a serious problem: Canada already cannot fulfill its existing commitments to monitor and enforce the many sanctions it has announced, let alone sweeping new ones.
Many independent experts agree that a combination of targeted sanctions – actually enforcing existing ones, while also adding individuals and specific entities to sanctions lists – would have been more effective. It would also have avoided the inevitable catching of innocents in what will be a blunt sanctions net, a problem that emerged in the United States after it listed the IRGC in 2019.
The challenges in actually enforcing the IRGC listing in a context of personnel shortages, widespread recruitment, morale, and retention difficulties, security clearance backlogs, and chronic underfunding in the national security community provide only one of many examples. The Canadian Armed Forces are 16,000 troops short of their authorized level, despite years of efforts on the recruitment front.
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