Cabinet Minister: Monsef and Afghanistan

cabinet minister: Monsef said she only learned the truth from her mother when a national newspaper asked about the issue, according to Huffington Post Canada. After Monsef true birthplace became public, Jean-Bruno Villeneuve, a spokesman for her office, confirmed Monsef passport would need to be corrected. "Until recent days, Maryam Monsef believed that she was born in Afghanistan. The cabinet minister has largely avoided the Ottawa media after announcing last month she was born in Iran, not Afghanistan as she had long claimed. As a result, when she applied for a Canadian passport, she listed Herat, Afghanistan, as her place of birth. Monsef deflected questions about whether she and her family are being investigated by immigration authorities, responding only with, "I can assure you that I have been forthright and will continue to be." Monsef story has sparked new questions about the Liberal government citizenship revocation process, and cases involving misrepresentation. Now that she has learned that this is incorrect, she will be taking steps to see how she can rectify this unintentional error," Villeneuve wrote in an email to CBC News on Sept. 22. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.