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Government reply to Jenny's Order Questions on Kneecap's travel ban

Privy Council Office
Reply by: the Prime Minister of Canada
Name of Signatory: Rachel Bendayan, P.C., M.P.
Reply

(i) was the Prime Minister’s Office involved in the decision for the member for Eglinton—Lawrence to make the announcement?

The Prime Minister’s Office was not involved in the decision for the member for Eglinton—Lawrence to make the announcement.

 

Public Safety Canada
Reply by: the Minister of Public Safety
Name of Signatory: Jacques Ramsay, Parliamentary Secretary
Reply

Canada Border Services Agency

(g) was the member for Eglinton—Lawrence authorized to announce that members of the musical group Kneecap were ineligible to enter the country, and, if so, who authorized the announcement and was this decision formally communicated to Kneecap by government officials?

The Canada Border Services Agency was not implicated in the authorization of the announcement. 

(h) did government officials advise the member for Eglinton—Lawrence regarding the ban of Kneecap, and, if so, which department were the officials from?

The Canada Border Services Agency did not provide advice on the announcement. 

(m) was there any consultation with other federal departments or agencies, including, but not limited to, Public Safety Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency and Global Affairs Canada, or third parties such as stakeholder groups prior to, or following, the announcement made by the member for Eglinton—Lawrence regarding Kneecap, and, if so, what was the response?

The Canada Border Services Agency was not consulted regarding the announcement.

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CTV News: ‘Utterly cruel’: Canadian parents say new citizenship rules hurt kids adopted from abroad

Tens of thousands of children born abroad in the past decade and a half, known as “Lost Canadians,” will now be eligible to become Canadian citizens after a new bill passed the Senate Wednesday and received royal assent Thursday.

Bill C-3 allows Canadians born outside the country to pass on their citizenship to their children who are also born abroad. The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) says the new law would make at least 115,000 children born outside the country eligible for Canadian citizenship.

‘Lost Canadians’ legislation becomes law after Senate approval

But Canadians living in Canada, who have adopted children from abroad, say the bill leaves out a key change — an amendment that would give their kids the same treatment as children born in Canada.

“It’s utterly cruel what the government has done to us as a family and to other families like us in Canada and it’s just mean,” said Kat Lanteigne, whose 10-year-adopted son Nathanael was born in Zambia.

The new legislation says “intercountry adoptees,” children born abroad and adopted by Canadians living in Canada, must pass a “substantial connection” test to obtain citizenship, including proving they have lived in Canada for three years.

Click link to read or read the news and watch the video - https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/utterly-cruel-canadian-parents-say-new-citizenship-rules-hurt-kids-adopted-from-abroad/

CPAC: NDP MP Jenny Kwan Comments on Possible Alberta Pipeline Deal

NDP MP Jenny Kwan faces questions from reporters on Parliament Hill on reports of talks between Alberta, Saskatchewan and the federal government over the development of a new pipeline. The negotiations, which British Columbia was not a part of, pertain to the possibility of a new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the north coast of B.C.

Click image or link to watch the video - https://www.cpac.ca/scrums/episode/ndp-mp-jenny-kwan-comments-on-possible-alberta-pipeline-deal--november-21-2025?id=cf32f588-afc9-4307-9975-9f5d1dc1c814

Media Release: Statement on Canadian Arms Fuelling Human Rights Violations in Sudan via UAE

Statement by MP Jenny Kwan and Alexandre Boulerice on Canadian Arms Fuelling Human Rights Violations in Sudan via UAE

New Democrats are deeply concerned about potential Canadian complicity in the conflict in Sudan via Canadian arms exports to the United Arab Emirates – the same country Prime Minister Carney visited this week to expand trade. 

In response to a question from NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Alexandre Boulerice in Parliament on Thursday, Parliamentary Secretary Mona Fortier refused to answer whether the government will end potential Canadian complicity in the horrific war crimes committed by the RSF in Sudan, and suspend Canadian arms exports to the UAE. 

The latest CBC investigation revealing Canadian-branded weapons in the hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is nothing short of alarming — and it demands immediate accountability from this Liberal government. For over a year, open-source researchers and humanitarian experts have warned that foreign-supplied arms are fuelling atrocities in Sudan, including ethnic cleansing and the massacre of civilians in El Fasher. Now we learn that rifles bearing the logo of a Canadian company, Sterling Cross Defense Systems, have been verified in at least nine photos and videos of RSF fighters.

Canada has maintained an arms embargo on Sudan since 2004. We are a signatory to the Arms Trade Treaty. Yet somehow, weapons produced by a Canadian manufacturer have entered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises — a conflict that has already killed more than 150,000 people and displaced over 12 million. That is a catastrophic failure of oversight.

While the Liberals say Canada has a “robust risk-assessment framework,” the facts tell a different story. Experts say Canada’s export-monitoring system is weak, opaque, and riddled with gaps that allow arms to be diverted through intermediaries such as the United Arab Emirates. Even Global Affairs cannot explain how these rifles reached a sanctioned paramilitary force accused of mass atrocities.

This is unacceptable. The Liberals must immediately launch a full investigation into any potential breaches of Canadian export or brokering laws, strengthen end-use monitoring, and close the loopholes that allow Canadian-made equipment to end up in the hands of human rights abusers. 

New Democrats once again call on all parties in the House to support the “No More Loopholes” Bill C-233, introduced by NDP MP Jenny Kwan, that would strengthen monitoring and disclosure standards to prevent Canadian arms from being used in war crimes or harming civilians. Canada cannot claim to champion human rights abroad while failing to prevent our own weapons from fuelling conflict.

CBC News: Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law

The "Lost Canadians" legislation, which aims to fix Canada's unconstitutional citizenship by descent rules, passed in the Senate Wednesday and received royal assent Thursday afternoon.

The term refers to people who were born outside of the country to Canadian parents who were also born in another country.

In 2009, the federal government changed the law so that Canadians born abroad could only pass down their citizenship if their child was born in Canada, but that was deemed unconstitutional by the Ontario Superior Court in December 2023.

The legislation proposed Canadian citizenship could be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth or adoption.

Both Ontario Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith and B.C. NDP MP Jenny Kwan attempted to introduce amendments to clarify the adoption rules, but both were unsuccessful.

When the bill was still before the House of Commons, Conservative and Bloc Québécois members of the immigration committee tried to amend the legislation to state that the three-year period in the substantial connection test needed to take place within five consecutive years.

However, that amendment was removed by Liberal and NDP MPs before the bill was sent to the Senate.

Click link to read the news story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-canadians-bill-senate-9.6986432

CTV News: Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law

CPAC VIDEO: Coalition Presents Report on Canada-Israel Arms Flow

At a news conference in Ottawa, a coalition of civil society organizations present a report detailing Canada’s alleged role as a “weapons corridor” for Israel.

Speaking with reporters are Rachel Small from World Beyond War, Haneen Muhanna from the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Alex Paterson from Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. They are joined by NDP MP Jenny Kwan.

Click link to watch the press conference video - https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/coalition-presents-report-on-canada-israel-arms-flow--novmeber-18-2025?id=455a98e0-c56c-4e25-aab2-a04ef2100e52

Anadolu Agency: Report reveals Canada's continued role as 'weapons transit corridor' for Israel

A recent report revealed Canada's continued shipment of military equipment to Israel via US weapons factories, despite Foreign Minister Anita Anand's announcement in August about "freezing all existing permits in 2024 that could have allowed military components to be used in Gaza."

The report titled, "Exposing the U.S. Loophole: How Canadian F-35 Parts and Explosives Reach Israel," stated that the evidence it provided "details hundreds of shipments from Canadian military manufacturers to the U.S. weapons factories that manufacture Israel's key warplanes, bombs, and artillery shells."

"The report also exposes, for the first time, Canada's role as a vital transit corridor for hundreds of shipments of European-made TNT en route to U.S. bomb-makers, and damning evidence of Canadian F-35 components being shipped on to Israel mere days after arriving at U.S. facilities," it said.

According to the data provided, at least "34 shipments of military aircraft components sent by American Lockheed factories to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israeli Air Force Base, and Israeli weapons manufacturers between April 2024 and August 2025 – immediately after receiving hundreds of matching shipments from Canadian manufacturers."

Meanwhile, "360 additional aircraft part shipments from Canadian manufacturers to Lockheed Martin's F-35 assembly facility in Fort Worth, Texas," were sent between September 2023 and August 2025.

It said that "150 shipments of Canadian explosives and flammable materials from General Dynamics facilities in Valleyfield and Repentigny, Quebec, to the U.S. Army Ammunition Plants that manufacture 2000-pound MK-84 bombs, 155mm artillery shells, and 120mm tank rounds for export to Israel.”

The report revealed that at least 433 shipments of TNT manufactured in Poland were sent to Quebec between October 2023 and November 2025, which were then transported to Canada and then to Israel.

It claimed that the TNT sent was "the 2000-pound MK-84 and I-2000 Penetrator bombs that Israel drops on Gaza."

Click link to read the news story - https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/report-reveals-canadas-continued-role-as-weapons-transit-corridor-for-israel/3747382#

CBC: Jet fighter maintenance parts, bombs shipped to Israel via U.S., groups say in new report

Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleges, examining export data and U.S. Department of Defence contracts.

"These exports are bypassing all of Canada’s export controls because of the way they’re routed through the U.S., and nonetheless, they’re still making it to Israel and directly supporting Israel’s capacity to carry out war crimes in Gaza," said Rachel Small, a Canadian organizer with the World Beyond War activist group.

The report outlines 34 shipments of military aircraft components between April 2024 and August of this year that it says were sent to U.S. facilities belonging to Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the F-35 fighter jet, before being transferred "just a few days later" to Israel.

The report also mentions 360 additional aircraft part shipments to an F-35 assembly facility in Fort Worth, Texas, 150 shipments of explosives from two Quebec facilities belonging to General Dynamics to the U.S., and 433 shipments of TNT sent from a manufacturer in Poland through to the U.S., and eventually Israel, after transiting via Quebec's Port of Saguenay.

Click link to read the news story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/politics-jet-fighters-bombs-canada-us-israel-9.6982606

CPAC VIDEO: NDP MPs Speak with Reporters Following Vote on the Federal Budget

“We have decided to put the interests of our country first—to vote against the budget but to help prevent an election,” NDP interim leader Don Davies tells reporters after government’s budget motion narrowly passes in the House of Commons with two NDP MPs abstaining.

Click link to watch the video - https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/ndp-mps-comment-after-vote-on-federal-budget--november-17-2025?id=319439af-072b-4573-99f8-1dd509d7a0eb