September 18, 2012

Medi Shams	September 18, 2012	در حمایت سارا و پسرش
Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC)	ICC MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER HARPER

It is not a crime or sin willing to live somewhere that one could be free.

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18 September 2012
ICC MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER HARPER
September 18, 2012 --  In an unprecedented step for the Iranian-Canadian community, the ICC was asked to participate in a meeting with the Prime Minister and other top Cabinet Ministers, including Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The prime minister's office has supplied names and biographical information for people present at this meeting and pictured in the photo shared on Twitter (from left to right):

• B.C. Conservative MP John Weston, who represents a Vancouver riding and sits on the Commons immigration committee

• Mehrdad Rahbar - President of Vernacular Design Inc. and Neda for Freedom Society (Vancouver)

• Moe Eskandarpour - CEO of Vanguard Mortgage Investment Corporation and Neda for Freedom Society (Vancouver)

• Ahmad Tabrizi - Founder of the Parya Trillium Foundation, a GTA community centre that has received funding from Kenney's department in the past (Toronto)

• Michael Parsa - Former director of the Iranian-Canadian Congress and former president of federal Conservative riding association in Richmond Hill (Toronto)

• Prime Minister Stephen Harper

• Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay (identified as an activist from Ottawa by the PMO, but originally from Vancouver and now married to Defence Minister Peter MacKay)

• Mehrdad Amiri - Activist, President of Lambda General Contractors (Montreal)

• Dr. Farrokh Zandi - Professor at Schulich School of Business at York University and current president of Iranian-Canadian Congress (Toronto)

• Farid Rohani - Chair, Laurier Institution and member of the Nowruz Commission (Vancouver)

• Immigration Minister Jason Kenney

The prime minister's office says that Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird also attended the meeting, although he was not in this photo.