From the CBC:
The RCMP’s national security team has arrested and charged an Ontario youth with a terrorism-related offence, the police force said Friday following an investigation in Kingston, Ont.
Police have laid two charges against the young person, who is accused of knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity and counselling another person to “deliver, place, discharge or detonate an explosive or other lethal device … against a place of public use with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury.”
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A second individual, an adult male CBC News has identified as Hussam Eddin Alzahabi, was also arrested Thursday but has not been charged. Alzahabi’s father told CBC News that police have now released his son.
Interestingly, St Thomas Anglican Church in Kingston sponsored the Alzahabi family in 2016:
We have undertaken to sponsor the Alzahabi family: Amin and Samah as well as their children Firouz (19), Hussam Eddin (18) and Layth(10). They are Sunni Muslim, a persecuted minority in Syria.
Naturally no one is talking about ideology or motive, although it’s safe to assume the would-be perpetrators are not radical Anglicans.
Regarding how the police handled releasing information to the public, I recommend this commentary from Christie Blatchford in the National Post :
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-a-terror-plot-but-all-we-got-was-hot-air
Regarding the aspect of an Anglican church (a Roman Catholic church was also involved in the umbrella program) sponsoring people who are “Sunni Muslim, a persecuted minority in Syria” (aside: Christians are a severely disadvantaged minority in some Sunni dominated nations), this is one facet of a general approach to problems that may be characterised as well-intentioned, tainted with virtue-signalling, and driven by a reading of the Gospel that is of limited intelligence re how acting on such defective reading might foster attacks on the Gospel. This has not been lost on more intelligent non- or anti-Christians who write in the secular media, specifically entertainment, and more specifically satirical comedy. I am thinking of The Simpsons. For that reason I label the simplistic well-intentioned, but virtue-signalling, acting on a defective reading of the Gospel as Ned Flanders Syndrome.
The reality is that refugees are just people with the same strengths and weaknesses as anyone else. There’s no guarantee there won’t be nuts, criminals and/or extremists embedded in any given group. Nazis and Nazi sympathisers made their way into Canada after WWII as part of the tide of European immigrants during the Fifties and Sixties.
So we take a risk out of Christian charity. But we should take it with our eyes wide open. We should certainly take the blandishments of the Liberal government that all the Syrians were “vetted” with a grain of salt; you cannot “vet” a Syrian refugee.