Preventing Canada's Own 9/11

Canada’s intelligence services have long been ridiculed as being toothless and a far cry from their U.S. or British counterparts. But CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has come through for us and prevented Canada’s own 9/11. By all accounts, the terrorist cell, based in and around Toronto, had enough explosives to recreate the bombing of Oklahama City three times over.

Keen observers of what has been going on in Canada for the last five years or so are not surprised by this near-attack on Toronto; it has been brewing for a while, they’ll tell you.
Toronto, in particular, has been undermined by criminals and radicals from overseas for years. While this trend may still be barely noticeable even for long-time residents of the city, there is no denying the fact anymore that Canada has become, or is on its way of becoming, “Canuckistan”, a term used by former CNN personality Pat Buchanan.

Buchanan was also among the first U.S. commentators to speak up after the news about the Toronto bust broke, expressing his hope that this would open the eyes of (Liberal) Canadians to reality.

After almost 13 years of Liberal government in Canada, Canadians now reap what the Liberals have sowed: Wide open borders and lax enforcement of even the most fundamental rules and provisions of immigration laws have resulted in a growing subculture of undesirables who linger about Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver. The majority of them are criminals, but since 2001, in particular, the intake of potential terrorists has also gone up.

To make matters even worse, former prime minister Jean Chrétien, in the wake of 9/11, announced that the visa applications of students from the Middle East would be fast-tracked - the very group that forms one of the main sources of future terrorists. It was almost as if that Liberal prime minister was hellbent on creating another 9/11 - only this time, on Canadian soil.

Then, we had Paul Martin, his successor, who was photographed at a Tamil Tiger fundraising event. While the rest of the civilized world had banned the Tamil Tigers for being a terrorist organization, prime minister Martin stood his ground and refused to do so. I’ll leave it up to you to find out why (I’ll give you a hint: photo - Paul Martin dancing and having fun - “fundraising” event - Tamil Tigers …).

Thankfully, when Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper took office, he fell in line with the rest of the world and banned the Tamil Tigers (I guess he never danced and laughed it up at a Tamil Tiger “fundraiser”).

Just the other week, it was revealed that 90% of the immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan who had come to Canada over the last five years had not been properly vetted. Again, the blame for that rests with the previous Liberal governments.

Harper is taking a different course: since he took office, the number of deportations has gone up. A few weeks ago, a major raid in Toronto netted about 100 drug dealers, gang members and killers in Toronto in an operation of military precision (this would have been unthinkable with a Liberal prime minister), and now there are 17 would-be terrorists in custody.

You really have to hand it to the new prime minister. During the election campaign, he promised he would clean up the Liberal mess that Canada had become, and so far, he’s keeping his word. I shudder to think what would have happened with these terrorists in Toronto if a Liberal still resided at 24 Sussex Drive (to our American readers: that’s the official prime-ministerial residence. In other words, it’s our version of the White House).