MPs to Probe Alleged Terrorists’ Admittance to Canada
Published on August 13, 2024
A House of Commons committee is launching a probe to help determine how alleged terrorists were allowed to immigrate to Canada. MPs on the public safety committee voted unanimously to start the study on the issue at the end of August, and are calling Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Immigration Minister Marc Miller to testify. Conservative and NDP MPs had requested an urgent meeting be held on Aug. 13 to discuss the issue. The move follows the arrest of a father and a son on July 31, who the RCMP said were in advanced stages of planning a “serious, violent attack” in Toronto, for the benefit or at the direction of terror group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)....