Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says it’s her “understanding” that Iranian soccer officials saw their permission to enter Canada revoked ahead of the FIFA Congress in Vancouver.
Iranian state media says Iranian Football Federation president Mehdi Taj and two other Iranian officials were denied entry.
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner says she’s troubled that Taj made it to Canada, given his history as a former commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Rempel Garner says the fact that a former member of a listed terrorist entity managed to get to Canada raises big questions about the government’s screening process….