When the federal government added Samidoun to its list of terror entities, joining Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. and the Proud Boys, it could have wide-ranging implications for the group.

Over the past year, a major pressure campaign was underway to have Samidoun listed as a terrorist entity. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had said were he prime minister, the activist group, which the U.S. government said is a fundraising front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, would have been listed already.