OTTAWA — Conservative MP James Bezan tabled a bill on Tuesday seeking to reform Ottawa’s sanctions regime to target immediate family members of human rights abusers and tackle transnational repression.

“We want to make sure that Canada is not being used as a safe haven for corrupt foreign officials that are hiding their families here,” the Manitoba MP said Tuesday on Parliament Hill.

“We have to hold those to account who are responsible for all of the crimes that we’re seeing committed against the international norms and the rule of law, and the continued abuses that we’re seeing on civil liberties and human rights around the world.”

Bezan’s bill would also bar immediate relatives of human-rights abusers from travel and financial holdings in Canada — a response to reports that Iranian o

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