Can we please stop lionizing terrorists and extremists?

The bottom line is that CSIS and the RCMP have reasonable grounds to suspect or believe that a threat to national security exists and that is why they have the mandate to carry out investigations.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, pictured in a Hill scrum. CSIS and the RCMP don’t have the luxury of time or resources to waste on non-threats, writes Phil Gurski. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

April 24, 2017

OTTAWA—Now that the recommendations of the Iacobucci Commission in Canada have finally been implemented and three Canadians who claim to have been tortured in Syria with the alleged complicity of the Canadian government and CSIS have settled their case, it is time for a comment. A few weeks have p...

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