Conservative MPs ask public safety committee to probe arrest of ISIS suspect

September 9, 2024 and   

(Global News) Conservative MPs have asked Canada’s public safety committee to reconvene to probe how a Toronto man arrested last week for allegedly plotting an ISIS attack in the U.S. got into the country.

The four Conservative members of the committee want it to meet immediately to hear from Immigration Minister Marc Miller, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Canadian Jewish groups.

In a letter to the committee chair on Monday, the MPs said the arrest marked the second time this summer that Canadian security agencies had disrupted an ISIS-related terrorism plot.

“This again raises serious questions about the government’s ability to prevent potential terrorists from entering the country, and demands the committee’s immediate attention,” they wrote.

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