Is there a need for longer jail sentences in terrorism cases?

One of the drivers of terrorism is to terrorize. Our obsession with a truly fringe element of our society tells me that the terrorists are succeeding in their goals. Do we really want to cede victory to a tiny bunch of murderers?
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, pictured last week on the Hill.
OTTAWA—For a country that is thankfully rarely touched by terrorism, we in Canada sure seem to talk about it a lot. I suppose I am partly responsible for this as I tend to write about violent extremism ad nauseum, but given my career in counterterrorism with CSIS, I hope some will cut me some slac...

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