The U.K. and Canada: polar opposites when it comes to the terrorist threat

The U.K. has had as many plots in 18 months as we have had in 18 years, more or less.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, pictured recently on the Hill, is the political minister responsible for CSIS, the CSE, and the RCMP. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

June 11, 2018

OTTAWA—All it takes is a cursory glance at the news on any given day to conclude—erroneously, as I hope to show—that Islamist extremist terrorism is a daily event that threatens us all. We read of bombings in Afghanistan, beheadings in Libya, vehicular attacks in Barcelona, and shootings in Ka...

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