Terrorism is a public safety issue, not national security threat

Let's not let extremists goad us into overreaction.

Who's the go-to person on terrorism, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, left, or Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, at podium? Phil Gurski writes that terrorism is more a public safety matter than an issue of national security.The Hill Times photograph by Rachel Aiello

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

September 4, 2017

The other day I had lunch with an old friend who, like me, used to work in the Canadian intelligence community. We had a wide-ranging chat over a number of issues—Donald Trump, what each of us was up to these days, etc. But as inevitably happens when two people with our backgrounds get together...

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