What if Canada stopped preventing violent extremism or countering violent extremism: would it make a difference?

I want my government to be involved where it needs to be and not try to be all things to all people. Developing expensive programs for all but non-existent problems makes little sense to me.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, the political minister responsible for anti-terrorism, pictured last week on the Hill.
OTTAWA—We in Canada have terrorism on the brain. On any given day, there's at least one, and, unfortunately, usually far more than one, terrorist act somewhere  on this planet. Death and destruction executed by idiots who see the use of violence as God’s will or a legitimate way to effect chang...

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