for many years, canada listed the pkk as a terrorist organization and not only did not have the irgc as a terrorist organization but even allowed canadians to send money to the irgc if they wanted. this was an utterly embarrassing and horribly backwards foreign policy position. in recent years, the government has finally listed the irgc as a terrorist organization, after it shot down a plane with hundreds of canadians in it. that's what it took; our government took no action against the irgc when it was slaughtering it's own people to govern a large country out of the back of a koran, but it finally acted when they shot down a civilian airplane, to our embarrassment and our deep shame. 

to this day, the largest terrorist attack in canada was by khalistani extremists. today, these same extremists and terrorist groups actually have privileged access to both of our major political parties and the sitting liberal government has gone out of it's way to protect khalistani terrorists from being held accountable by the indian government. it's deeply embarrassing.

then, we wonder why the world thinks it can push us around.

while the irgc is now a terrorist organization, as it should be, the pkk also remains a terrorist organization in canada. the pkk has never launched any sort of attack on canada or canadian interests, and has in fact been a staunch ally in the fight against isis, which canada was involved in. this needs to be immediately reversed, so that canadians can send money to kurdish freedom fighters in iran to help topple the fascist regime there.