A Toronto father and son duo were recently arrested by the RCMP while in the “advanced stages” of planning a terrorist attack. Both men have been charged with multiple terrorism offences according to the RCMP’s July 31 news release. 

Ahmed Eldidi (62) and Mostafa Eldidi (26) have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes, and conspiracy to commit murder. The father Ahmed faces an additional charge for aggravated assault. The duo also has links to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), with a video of them dawning the black and white ISIS flag.

Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer subsequently called for an investigation into how the Liberal government could grant the Eldidi father Canadian citizenship. Scheer noted that, before gaining citizenship, Eldidi appeared in a 2015 ISIS propaganda video that involved dismembering a prisoner with a sword. 

Liberals agreed on Monday to investigate how the national security failure happened, but their track record isn’t promising when it comes to accountability or transparency, and they’ve already angled their investigation by desperately blaming the Conservatives’ 2012 budget for the humiliating oversight. 

In another case of ISIS migration to Canada, last month ‘ISIS bride’ Kimberly Polman of British Columbia was hit with terrorism-related charges for having travelled to join the Islamic State in Syria in 2015. Another woman, Dure Ahmed returned to Canada last year, who married notorious ISIS terrorist El Shafee Elsheikh. 

According to the Public Safety Canada 2017 report on Terrorist Threats in Canada, there are over 190 terrorists with ties to Canada, while about 60 of them have returned to Canada in recent years, among those ISIS brides and fighters who believe the Islamic promise of utopia under Sharia law would reign in a superior system to that of Western nations that are naive enough to host them. 

Polman is one of fourteen people who landed in Montreal last April, having previously spent time in a Syrian jail reserved for terrorists and their families.

Moreover, scores of illegal migrants from conflict-riddled areas of the Middle East, who are not tested for ideological values, create a larger social fabric of ISIS, Al Qaeda sympathizers, and other Sunni extremists in Canada. 

How many are already in Canada? 

Between the Liberals’ reckless immigration policy, and refugee claimants flooding in through airports and across the Canada-US border, a head count is virtually impossible.  

What is clear, however, is that Al-Qaeda and other affiliated Islamist groups often forge foreign passports from conflict-ridden countries so their operatives can claim asylum in countries like Canada. 

Last year, Canada received 60,000 asylum applications, the highest number in over a decade. 

Additionally, there are 50,000 failed asylum claimants who remain in Canada to this day. 

Another half a million foreigners are illegally living in Canada, most of whom have come to Canada on student visas, and then refused to leave. The Liberals’ solution to this problem isn’t mass deportations, but to somehow ‘regularize’ their status.

Elsewhere in the West, a popular Islamic group known as ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir’ “Party of Liberation” that also operates in Canada, was banned by the United Kingdom on January 19th, with the government citing its promotion of terrorism as the reason for cracking down on the pan-Islamist organization. 

The Canadian government, however, still allows the group to fundraise legally, host events promoting their Al-Qaeda-aligned ideology, and casually promote violence throughout all their discourse. 

Although ISIS doesn’t currently control large portions of Syrian-Iraqi territory, all they would need to remobilize their terrorist activities is a society willing to harbor their sympathizers to reorganize and strike again. 

They may not even need to attack Canada but rather organize, fundraise, and recruit youth within Canada to then travel to the next destabilized country to rebuild their so-called ‘caliphate’ wherever the opportunity presents itself. 

Don’t Underestimate the Crime 

Every single Canadian resident or Citizen who took the one-way 9,000 KM flight to Turkey, to then cross the Turkish-Syrian border to join ISIS during the Syrian Civil War, made a conscious decision. 

These are people who sought the death of others for religious benefit, who divorced Canadian values in favour of an afterlife promise of brothels and wealth, who did not care for the humanity of oppressed communities that they would end up torturing, killing, and trafficking. 

In the case of Kimberley Polman and her fellow ISIS brides, they would be involved in the distribution of sex slaves to their polygamous partners. 

A tough-on-terrorism approach is required against those who have been involved in committing the most heinous acts of religiously inspired violence in the 21st century.

Yet, the Trudeau Government is failing to vet migrants, and taking on weak criminal justice approaches to ISIS-linked and sympathizing individuals who have already committed atrocities.

This is nothing short of importing terrorism into Canada.

ISIS may not be talked about in mainstream media here in Canada, but last year, ISIS claimed 141 attacks in Iraq and 112 in Syria. 

This year, there have been two major attacks from ISIS’ Khorestan division known simply as “ISIS-K”, which claimed 130 lives in Moscow and nearly 100 in Tehran. 

The threat is very well alive, and the latest episode of the scandalous Trudeau government is a critical opportunity to open an anticipated conversation on unchecked migration.