John Robson: Yes, We Should Be Worried About Canada’s Burgeoning Crop of Jihadis

Published on September 9, 2024

Commentary Oh well. Another day, another homegrown Canadian terror plot. I wonder if we should be worried? No, wait. Before you growl “Of course, you idiot” at me or my editors, please consider that this response would be dismissed, even despised, by much of Canada’s political class. First it was the Eldidis, father and son, with the former having passed a number of security screenings despite what the CBC delicately calls “a 2015 video allegedly showing him participating in a violent terrorist assault overseas” and his son sliding painlessly through one security-check-like object. And now it’s “Toronto man accused of plotting terror attack at Jewish centre in New York City.”...