Afghan-Born Mp: Afghan Refugee and Robert Fife

afghan-born mp: Last week, Fife, reporting for The Globe and Mail, inquired again about her early life and Monsef finally learned from her mother that she was actually born in Mashhad, Iran, according to CTV. On Thursday, Monsef released a statement in which she said she believed she was from Afghanistan when she listed it as her country of birth on her Canadian passport application. The 31-year-old minister built her political career on the narrative that she was an Afghan refugee who fled to Canada in 1996 with her mother and two sisters where she eventually overcame the odds to become Canada first Afghan-born MP. In June, Robert Fife, then host of CTV Question Period, asked Monsef about her birthplace and she responded that she believed she was born in Afghanistan. The statement also said that she would be taking steps to rectify this unintentional error. He said that his office sees dozens of applicants everyday who don't know what happened or where they were born, especially the children of refugees. Immigration lawyer, Lorne Waldman, told CTV Your Morning on Friday that Monsef case is extremely common among refugees moving to Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.