Monsef Story: People and Monsef Case

monsef story: That prompted some people, including Conservative MP Tony Clement, to say she should step down from her position pending an inquiry into her citizenship application, according to The Waterloo Record. But Trudeau said people shouldn't be mixing Monsef story with those of people who have lied to get into the country. "People are mixing very different situations for political reasons," he told reporters. Maryam Monsef said in September she had recently found out she was born in Iran and not in Afghanistan as her mother had always told her. Trudeau said that sometimes when people are fleeing war — as in Monsef case — "there is not always perfect clarity on which side of the border one is born." People should not mix those cases with "very deliberate acts of omission or dishonesty in trying to get Canadian citizenship through fraudulent declarations or attestations," Trudeau said. By The Canadian Press Certain refugee-rights groups have said the federal government has revoked the citizenship of some people who are in a position similar to Monsef's. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.