Updates to List of Terrorist Entities

Summary#

These are the final Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities. They update how 23 entities and their aliases are listed on Canada’s official list of terrorist entities. The changes were registered on June 27, 2024 and took effect immediately.

What it does#

• Updates the wording, short forms and aliases used for 23 entities on the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities so the list matches current intelligence.
• Removes a few outdated aliases from four entries, including:
  • Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) — removed older finance/coordination aliases.
  • Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) — removed a listed French variant.
  • Taliban — removed one older name form.
  • Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) — removed one older French name form.
• Makes mostly grammatical, spelling or stylistic edits and adds common short forms for some groups. Examples include updates to how the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Aum Shinrikyo (Aum), Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force (IRGC-QF), Boko Haram and Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are shown.

Who's affected#

• Financial institutions — they must keep screening and watch lists up to date so they keep matching the current names and aliases.
• Government agencies involved in security and enforcement, including Public Safety Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which produced the intelligence behind the updates.
• People or groups with names similar to listed entities may be more clearly distinguished when aliases are clarified. It is unclear from the text whether any other groups or individuals are directly affected.

Why it matters#

• Clear, current names help banks and government spot and freeze assets, block transactions, and meet Canada’s counter‑terrorism and international obligations.
• Updating aliases makes it harder for listed groups to evade detection by using different names.
• The changes are administrative updates based on intelligence and are expected to cause minimal extra cost or burden for businesses.