The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree
Minister of Public Safety
House of Commons

Re: Call for Canada to Designate Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Terrorist Entities

Established in 1875, B’nai Brith Canada has been this country’s longest-serving human rights organization. We challenge antisemitism and all forms of hatred with resolve. We provide essential food and housing assistance to communities across the country. And we stand firm, without hesitation, wherever human rights are on the line, turning our principles into action every single day.

We are writing to call on the Government of Canada to designate the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities under Canadian law, consistent with the actions taken by the United States in January 2026 and for the same underlying reasons.

Under section 83.05 of the Criminal Code, Canada may list an entity as a terrorist organization where there are reasonable grounds to believe that it has knowingly carried out, attempted to carry out, participated in, or facilitated terrorist activity, or knowingly acted on behalf of, at the direction of, or in association with such an entity. The publicly documented conduct of these Muslim Brotherhood chapters meets this threshold.

The Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood has engaged in direct militant activity and alignment with designated terrorist organizations. Under the leadership of Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, the group formalized its alignment with the Hezbollah–Hamas axis, reactivated armed elements, and participated in rocket attacks against Israel. These activities constitute participation in and facilitation of terrorist activity within the meaning of Canadian law.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood have provided material support to Hamas, including financial assistance, logistical coordination, recruitment facilitation, and involvement in weapons manufacturing and fundraising networks. Hamas, which has been listed as a terrorist entity in Canada since 2002, has openly identified itself as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Providing support to Hamas engages the Criminal Code provisions governing facilitation and association with a listed terrorist organization.

The broader historical record further demonstrates that multiple violent terrorist organizations, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Gama’a al-Islamiyya, HASM, and Liwa al-Thawra, emerged directly from the Muslim Brotherhood ecosystem. These groups are the product of an organizational and doctrinal environment that repeatedly generates and sustains violent activity.

Canada has already recognized Hamas as a terrorist organization and criminalizes material support, facilitation, and association under the Criminal Code. Designating the Lebanese, Egyptian, and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood chapters would address upstream entities that have supported, enabled, and coordinated with a listed terrorist organization, strengthening the coherence and effectiveness of Canada’s counterterrorism framework.

The Muslim Brotherhood operates transnationally. Its networks, financing mechanisms, and ideological infrastructure extend across borders and jurisdictions. Listing these chapters under Canadian law would enhance the ability of Canadian authorities to disrupt financial flows, restrict organizational activity, and prevent Canada from being used as a permissive environment for terrorist-linked networks.

We therefore urge the Government of Canada to exercise its existing authority under the Criminal Code to list the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities, based on the same factual grounds that justify their treatment as such by close allies and that independently satisfy Canada’s legal threshold.

We respectfully call on you, as Minister of Public Safety, to act decisively. Designating the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood would reinforce the integrity of Canada’s counterterrorism regime and its commitment to public safety and national security.

Canada has long understood that democratic societies endure only when they draw firm lines against movements that organize, finance, and legitimize violence. Terrorist designation is not merely a technical instrument. It is a statement of responsibility by the state, affirming that political violence and its enablers have no protected place within our legal or civic order.

We urge the Government of Canada to exercise that responsibility.

Sincerely,