Noé Chartier
Epoch Times, Aug. 17, 2024
“I don’t think they have the resources to do a full background check on everybody that the government was seeking to bring into Canada.”
Many questions are left unanswered around the foiled alleged terrorist plot in Toronto covered by a publication ban, especially on how one of the suspects obtained citizenship and whether any other similarly inclined individuals could be lying in wait.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Aug. 12 that departments are conducting a review of the matter and findings would be shared at the “appropriate moment.” Meanwhile, opposition MPs called for an emergency committee meeting to promptly begin a study of the issue. All parties agreed this week to start work before Parliament resumes and to call ministers and officials to testify.
Ahmed Eldidi, 62, and his son Mostafa Eldidi, 26, were arrested by the RCMP in late July in Richmond Hill, Ont., and stand accused of several terrorism offences for the benefit of or at the direction of the ISIS terrorist group. Police said they were at the “advanced stages of planning a serious, violent attack in Toronto.”
The father faces an additional aggravated assault charge, with media reports linking it to his participation in an ISIS propaganda video outside Canada in 2015 in which he dismembered a prisoner with a sword. Police have not confirmed the matter and the allegations have not been tested in court.
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