Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
IRCC and CBSA, some of us have evidence of opposing the Iranian regime long before Canada listed the IRGC.
We have photographs, documents, witnesses, and histories that deserve examination.
Please meet with affected conscripts and allow us to explain how coercion shaped our lives.
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Dear IRCC and CBSA,
We fear becoming casualties of a system designed to protect Canada.
We support strong national security. But we ask you to recognize that people forced into conscription may themselves have suffered under the regime.
Please give us the chance to present our individual cases.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @gary_srp
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
IRCC and CBSA, we have stood peacefully in Ottawa, hoping someone will listen.
We have families to protect, evidence to present, and years of experiences that cannot be explained by a single document.
Please open the door to dialogue with those directly affected.
We are ready to speak. We hope you are ready to hear us.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @CBCNews @CTVNews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Dear IRCC and CBSA,
Some of us fled the very regime Canada seeks to hold accountable.
We opposed its actions, suffered under its compulsory conscription system, and came to Canada seeking freedom.
Please recognize that protecting Canada and treating victims of coercion fairly can go hand in hand.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @pfragiskatos @JulieDzerowicz
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
One name on an immigration file.
Behind it, a spouse, a Canadian-born child, a mortgage, a career, and years of hard work.
Dear IRCC and CBSA, please consider the human consequences of your decisions.
Our families deserve meaningful individual assessments, not assumptions about forced conscription.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @SameerZuberi @BradRedekopp
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Dear IRCC and CBSA,
Please don’t judge us solely by an institution we never voluntarily chose.
Judge our actions. Examine our evidence. Listen to our histories.
Some of us stood against the Iranian regime long before Canada designated the IRGC.
We are asking for one opportunity to explain who we are and what really happened.
Please meet with us.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @gary_srp @CBCNews @CTVNews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Dear IRCC and CBSA,
Please don’t judge us solely by an institution we never voluntarily chose.
Judge our actions. Examine our evidence. Listen to our histories.
Some of us stood against the Iranian regime long before Canada designated the IRGC.
We are asking for one opportunity to explain who we are and what really happened.
Please meet with us.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @gary_srp @CBCNews @CTVNews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Dear IRCC and CBSA,
We fear becoming casualties of a system designed to protect Canada.
We support strong national security. But we ask you to recognize that people forced into conscription may themselves have suffered under the regime.
Please give us the chance to present our individual cases.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @gary_srp
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
IRCC and CBSA, we have stood peacefully in Ottawa, hoping someone will listen.
We have families to protect, evidence to present, and years of experiences that cannot be explained by a single document.
Please open the door to dialogue with those directly affected.
We are ready to speak. We hope you are ready to hear us.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @CBCNews @CTVNews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
This needs to be addressed by the government asap!
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Three days outside IRCC in the cold. Parents are exhausted. Children are tired. Families are carrying fear and uncertainty every hour.
@AliEhsassi @HonJudySgro, we urgently need a meeting with you. Please hear us directly.
@CBCNews @CTVNews @ctvottawa @globalnews @CanadianPress @globeandmail @TorontoStar
#JusticeForIranianConscripts #ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
Please read this! It’s important
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS.
Behind every immigration application is a human story. There are spouses waiting for decisions, children worried about their parents and families unable to plan their futures. These are not merely case numbers. Every affected person deserves an individualized assessment and a meaningful opportunity to be heard. Look at this innocent kid, he should be excited about Halloween not protesting in front of IRCC.
@pfragiskatos @LenaMetlegeDiab @gary_srp @jacquesramsaypl @JulieDzerowicz @MichelleRempel @SameerZuberi @amansodhilib @BradRedekopp @SimaAcan @CostasMenegakis @jyduclos @rhondaforoshawa @MarcusPowlowski
@CBCNews @CTVNews @globalnews @CityNews @CanadianPress @globeandmail @nationalpost @CP24 @CBCToronto @CTVToronto @CityNewsTO @globalnewsto @TorontoStar @CBCOttawa @ctvottawa
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers #JusticeForIranianConscripts
Michael-Msi retweeted
Look at this innocent people who! I’m speechless! I don’t know about the ircc!
𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗦
Trust in tomorrow is built slowly. We earn a qualification, accept a job, sign a lease, and begin to feel that life has a direction.
When uncertainty returns because of mandatory conscription we could not refuse, those small foundations can feel shaken. We are not asking anyone to overlook the realities of the past. We are asking people to understand the difference between obligation and choice, and the impact on families today.
@JulieDzerowicz @shuvmajumdar @vincentneilho @gary_srp @MichelleRempel @NatilienJ
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Michael-Msi retweeted
We were demonstrating on the streets to ask Canada list IRGC thugs! It backfired on us by banning innocent people!
𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗦
The years we have spent here are filled with ordinary efforts that add up: learning a new system, advancing our studies, helping our communities, and raising our families with care.
None of that changes the fact that mandatory conscription was not voluntary. But it shows the people we have chosen to become. We hope our families can continue contributing to Canada without the fear that follows an unchosen obligation.
@BradRedekopp @CostasMenegakis @SameerZuberi @LenaMetlegeDiab @AHousefather @gary_srp
#JusticeForIranianConscripts #ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Dear IRCC and CBSA,
We understand Canada’s responsibility to protect its people.
But please remember that some of us were victims of the very regime Canada condemns.
We opposed it, endured forced conscription, and sought freedom in Canada.
Please recognize the difference between those who imposed coercion and those who experienced it.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @gary_srp @CBCNews @CTVNews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
IRCC and CBSA, we are standing before you with documents, personal histories, and unanswered questions.
Please meet directly with affected conscripts.
We can explain what choices we had, how conscription was imposed, and why our circumstances cannot be reduced to a single label.
We have waited long enough to be heard.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @pfragiskatos @JulieDzerowicz @CBCOttawa @globalnews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
We left Iran because we wanted to live without the fear and restrictions imposed by its regime.
Now, the same compulsory conscription that took away our choices is threatening the future we built in Canada.
Dear IRCC and CBSA, please recognize this painful contradiction and hear our stories.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @SameerZuberi @CTVNews @CanadianPress
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
An old conscription record cannot explain who a person is today.
It cannot tell you about years of peaceful living, contributions to Canadian communities, or the children now depending on that person.
IRCC and CBSA, please examine the complete evidence before deciding a family’s future.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @gary_srp @BradRedekopp @CBCNews @TorontoStar
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
Some of us were protesting the Iranian regime as students in 2008 and 2009.
We opposed its policies long before Canada designated the IRGC.
Later, we faced conscription imposed by the same authoritarian system.
IRCC and CBSA, please allow us to explain this history directly. Our choices and our circumstances were not the same thing.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @LenaMetlegeDiab @MichelleRempel @CTVNews @CBCNews
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
A refusal letter may be only a few pages long.
But its consequences can reach into every corner of a family’s life: employment, housing, savings, mental health, and the future of Canadian-born children.
Dear IRCC and CBSA, please recognize the human consequences of decisions involving forced conscription.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @JulieDzerowicz @SameerZuberi @globalnews @CBCOttawa
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers
Michael-Msi retweeted
STOP REFUSING CONSCRIPTS
We are fathers, mothers, researchers, engineers, teachers, and workers.
We are people who have built lives in Canada, contributed to our communities, and raised families here.
Our histories deserve individual examination, including the coercion we experienced.
IRCC and CBSA, please see the human beings behind these applications.
@CitImmCanada @CanBorder @pfragiskatos @BradRedekopp @CTVNews @globeandmail
#JusticeForIranianConscripts
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers