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Language · 10-23-2014, 12:15 PM

This is slightly off topic and I hope it doesn't derail the thread.

With the events of the past week and these two radicalized (appears as such) individuals who carried out these heinous attacks in Ottawa and Quebec, it came to light that their passports were revoked as they tried to travel abroad purportedly to join extremist elements.

Clearly, revoking their passport and limiting their ability to travel simply led to them harming Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil. It's also come to light that there are ~90 or so individuals in Canada under the same conditions. It was touched on earlier in this thread that the authorities may not have the authority to round these guys up and throw them in jail (rightfully so, in my honest opinion...that would open up a whole new can of worms relating to rights). However, it's also not feasible to do surveillance on them 24/7 going forward.

Which leads me to my main point - if these guys are so hell bent on going abroad, why not let them? Send them on their merry way and immediately revoke their Canadian citizenship, so they can never return to Canadian soil. I know this opens up other issues such as whether Canada is willfully allowing potential extremists access to other countries, however, there must be some way that international authorities from different countries can work together on this issue.

Mods - I don't mean to turn this into a foreign policy discussion on this issue (nor to take away from this thread on the tragedy that has occurred here), so feel free to move this to a new thread if you feel it belongs in one.

10-23-2014, 12:15 PM	#890
Language Scoring Winger Join Date: Nov 2003 Exp:	This is slightly off topic and I hope it doesn't derail the thread. With the events of the past week and these two radicalized (appears as such) individuals who carried out these heinous attacks in Ottawa and Quebec, it came to light that their passports were revoked as they tried to travel abroad purportedly to join extremist elements. Clearly, revoking their passport and limiting their ability to travel simply led to them harming Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil. It's also come to light that there are ~90 or so individuals in Canada under the same conditions. It was touched on earlier in this thread that the authorities may not have the authority to round these guys up and throw them in jail (rightfully so, in my honest opinion...that would open up a whole new can of worms relating to rights). However, it's also not feasible to do surveillance on them 24/7 going forward. Which leads me to my main point - if these guys are so hell bent on going abroad, why not let them? Send them on their merry way and immediately revoke their Canadian citizenship, so they can never return to Canadian soil. I know this opens up other issues such as whether Canada is willfully allowing potential extremists access to other countries, however, there must be some way that international authorities from different countries can work together on this issue. Mods - I don't mean to turn this into a foreign policy discussion on this issue (nor to take away from this thread on the tragedy that has occurred here), so feel free to move this to a new thread if you feel it belongs in one. Last edited by Language; 10-23-2014 at 12:18 PM.