Edmonton Terror Attack
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Maybe when this scumbag makes parole Trudeau can cut him a check for 10.5 million and apologize.
Was this guy engaged in a war in a foreign land at 15 years of age? Has he been found guilty of any crimes yet?
Edmonton suspect’s past didn’t raise red flags during asylum process: Goodale
Stephanie Levitz, THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Monday, October 02, 2017 05:40 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 02, 2017 05:57 PM EDT
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tried Monday to assuage renewed concerns about the security of Canada’s asylum system after it emerged the suspect in a weekend attack in Edmonton entered Canada as a refugee in 2012.
Abdulahi Hasan Sharif is facing 11 charges — including five counts of attempted murder — after a city police officer was stabbed and four people were struck by a cube van in what authorities have characterized as an act of terror.
Sharif, a Somali national, became known to police in 2015 after a report was received that he may have been radicalized, but investigators determined at that time that he did not pose a threat.
Nor is there any suggestion the accused was assessed as a public safety risk when he entered Canada at a legal border crossing in 2012, Goodale said Monday.
“There was no deleterious information that was available at that stage,” Goodale said.
Goodale said the procedures in place to vet newcomers are extensive, and include criminal background checks both in Canada and abroad, but would not discuss Sharif’s case further given the ongoing police investigation.
That Goodale took pains to point out how Sharif entered the country highlights the current tension around Canada’s asylum system. Since the start of the year, upwards of 13,000 people have been arrested crossing illegally in Canada in order to seek asylum.
Fears the border crossers aren’t being vetted properly is one of the concerns MPs say they keep hearing. Border officials were pressed extensively at a House of Commons immigration committee hearing last week on the security screening procedures in place.
In the early part of the year, the majority of those who entered in Manitoba were Somali nationals.
Edmonton police erroneously said Sunday that Sharif was in the process of applying for refugee status, but Goodale’s department quickly clarified that he’d actually been declared a refugee long ago.
A spokesman for the minister was asked whether the current situation at the border was the reason the government sought to correct the record.
“It’s a complex situation and we need to be precise with the facts so that Canadians can understand it,” Scott Bardsley said in an email.
Among the complexities: how Sharif’s immigration status could affect what happens next. Different outcomes can await people with refugee status in Canada and who are later charged with serious crimes, ranging from deportation to a loss of their status as permanent residents.
Opposition MP Michelle Rempel asked Goodale whether Sharif would be deported if he were to be found guilty.
Goodale said it was too early to say.
“Those charges, depending how they are dealt with in the final analysis by the courts, will determine the future prosecution of this case.”
The general security of Canada’s immigration system is an ongoing concern for many Canadians.
In focus groups held earlier this year by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship department, respondents discussing how many immigrants and refugees Canada ought to let in each year raised security as an issue.
“We’re accepting all these people but are we making sure they’re safe to come to Canada? It’s a concern,” one participant told the group.
Immigrants to Canada who were part of the focus groups were more likely to raise security as an issue, the report on the focus groups said.
“Participants did not necessarily have any proof or examples that security measures were being relaxed or inefficient. They simply want reassurances that compromises are not being made to accommodate an immigration policy that is seeing 300,000 new people entering the country each year, including an important contingent of refugees.”
Edmonton suspect
Stephanie Levitz, THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Monday, October 02, 2017 05:40 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 02, 2017 05:57 PM EDT
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tried Monday to assuage renewed concerns about the security of Canada’s asylum system after it emerged the suspect in a weekend attack in Edmonton entered Canada as a refugee in 2012.
Abdulahi Hasan Sharif is facing 11 charges — including five counts of attempted murder — after a city police officer was stabbed and four people were struck by a cube van in what authorities have characterized as an act of terror.
Sharif, a Somali national, became known to police in 2015 after a report was received that he may have been radicalized, but investigators determined at that time that he did not pose a threat.
Nor is there any suggestion the accused was assessed as a public safety risk when he entered Canada at a legal border crossing in 2012, Goodale said Monday.
“There was no deleterious information that was available at that stage,” Goodale said.
Goodale said the procedures in place to vet newcomers are extensive, and include criminal background checks both in Canada and abroad, but would not discuss Sharif’s case further given the ongoing police investigation.
That Goodale took pains to point out how Sharif entered the country highlights the current tension around Canada’s asylum system. Since the start of the year, upwards of 13,000 people have been arrested crossing illegally in Canada in order to seek asylum.
Fears the border crossers aren’t being vetted properly is one of the concerns MPs say they keep hearing. Border officials were pressed extensively at a House of Commons immigration committee hearing last week on the security screening procedures in place.
In the early part of the year, the majority of those who entered in Manitoba were Somali nationals.
Edmonton police erroneously said Sunday that Sharif was in the process of applying for refugee status, but Goodale’s department quickly clarified that he’d actually been declared a refugee long ago.
A spokesman for the minister was asked whether the current situation at the border was the reason the government sought to correct the record.
“It’s a complex situation and we need to be precise with the facts so that Canadians can understand it,” Scott Bardsley said in an email.
Among the complexities: how Sharif’s immigration status could affect what happens next. Different outcomes can await people with refugee status in Canada and who are later charged with serious crimes, ranging from deportation to a loss of their status as permanent residents.
Opposition MP Michelle Rempel asked Goodale whether Sharif would be deported if he were to be found guilty.
Goodale said it was too early to say.
“Those charges, depending how they are dealt with in the final analysis by the courts, will determine the future prosecution of this case.”
The general security of Canada’s immigration system is an ongoing concern for many Canadians.
In focus groups held earlier this year by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship department, respondents discussing how many immigrants and refugees Canada ought to let in each year raised security as an issue.
“We’re accepting all these people but are we making sure they’re safe to come to Canada? It’s a concern,” one participant told the group.
Immigrants to Canada who were part of the focus groups were more likely to raise security as an issue, the report on the focus groups said.
“Participants did not necessarily have any proof or examples that security measures were being relaxed or inefficient. They simply want reassurances that compromises are not being made to accommodate an immigration policy that is seeing 300,000 new people entering the country each year, including an important contingent of refugees.”
Edmonton suspect
Maybe you should spend a year it Gitmo to verify is is a tropical resort rather than a black prison. Maybe cut the Government a check for the holiday.
Just the ones whose lives are in danger, like being an informant back home tends to make people disappear, here you might get a pat on the back.
Could've been the war in Somalia in 2012. But who knows the Harper government might have just willy nilly let people sneak in.
Has it occurred to you that at the time he was screened there was no record of a shady past?
Late night sarcasm.
I understand completely. Our Prime Minister payed 10.5 million dollars and apologized to an Al Qaeda bomb maker that was targeting our troops in a time of war. Footnote: He is also on parole and still under restrictions, but seeking to have an injunction lifted so that he can meet with his terrorist sister.
A black prison? Is that what it is? I have no illusions about Guantanamo Bay, I even accept that Khadr was inducted into the life of terror when he was a child by his father. I also am not responsible for parenting every Canadian child who is taken down the path of terrorism.
Is this a question? Or a statement?
He was known to police, but they couldn't do anything because he hadn't done anything yet. Now he's done something, but I'll bet there will be lots of hand wringing folk that will call for his parole in a few years.
I would like to know how to order an Isis flag; is there a FLAGS ARE US site that carries them or a Canadian distributor? If you're ordering one of these, it might be a clear indication that your considering some terrorist-type shenanigans.
And good reason to keep an eye on somebody. Contrary to snowflake belief, surveillance is not a violation of your rights.