I wonder what legally changed that allows them to arrest them now. Listening to the CBC podcast The House last week they were talking about this group, and saying they couldn't arrest them because they hadn't technically committed any crimes. I want to re-listen it to remember exactly what they were saying, but if these sources are correct, it shows that this might have been part of a larger plan then, or they are just using this incidence as evidence that others were complicit in the attacks.
"Rounding them up" could just be a matter of detaining them for questioning, and in the case of any with links to the shooter possibly arresting them. By and large though, there should be nothing much they can do without proof of involvement in this or other offences. My guess is they're just paying some visits, rather than actually taking them into custody.
"Rounding them up" could just be a matter of detaining them for questioning, and in the case of any with links to the shooter possibly arresting them. By and large though, there should be nothing much they can do without proof of involvement in this or other offences. My guess is they're just paying some visits, rather than actually taking them into custody.
Just relistening to the section where they talk to immigration minister Chris Alexander, he talks about the Combating Terrorism Act. Right now it only is enforceable for acts outside the country, and that in the coming weeks new legislation was going to be put in place to ensure information about people leaving and returning the country was available to law enforcement agents, and to investigate inside Canada to prosecute terror suspects. This was on October 10th, he also was saying many of these people at this time just had the "potential" to have their passports revoked, and the fact that there is only a general threat and not an imminent threat affects the enforcement.
I guess this attack dials it up to imminent threat for a lot larger portion of this group of 80-100 people.
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On Sunday and to an extent yesterday, the concept of war was external facing.
Today there is certainly going to be an internal focus to ISIS as well.
I think it's a bit ridiculous to say that there hasn't been an internal focus towards ISIS before today. I also think your earlier claims about there being a lack of lonewolf style terrorists in Canada prior to ISIS forgets or ignores the bombing plot in Victoria during Canada Day in 2013. In fact, I think that case has a lot of similarities to this one. You have a low-income pair with a history of criminal convictions and substance abuse problems latch onto a violent ideology and then attempt to act out. I'm sorry, but I think there's a lot more that can be done within the country to prevent homegrown terrorism than there is fighting halfway across the world.
Anyways, I'll stop with the politics, but the hysterical and over-dramatic responses by some in this thread are hard to stomach.
Good, giddy up, no reason they should be allowed to wander freely.
They should be rounded up, placed on the next available Air Force Airbus, and delivered to Ankara, where the Turkish government will allow them safe passage into Syria and/or Iraq. There, they can fulfill their dream of fighting for IS/ISIS/ISIL. The likely would end up dead or, even better, languishing in a Shi'ite jail.
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