The Conservatives are calling for an investigation into how a Toronto father and son charged by RCMP in connection to a domestic ISIS terror plot were admitted into Canada.
At a press conference on Aug. 6, Conservative MP and House leader Andrew Scheer called for the House public safety committee to reconvene to “investigate all the aspects of this disturbing and shocking event.”
Scheer said Tory MP and public safety critic Frank Caputo also wrote a letter to Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc requesting that the details surrounding the terrorist plot be “made public so that Canadians can get answers.”
Scheer said Ahmed Eldidi had been admitted into Canada and later given citizenship, which he said represented a “colossal failure” of the federal government’s national security system.
“Canadians have a right to know what went wrong; how this individual gained entry into Canada and obtained Canadian citizenship,” he said. “Canadians also have a right to know if there’s anyone else in Canada with similar backgrounds who were granted entry into our country.”
Scheer said details about the incident have not been made public, which is why, he argued, a reconvening of the public safety committee is “critical.” He added that LeBlanc would be the first witness called to testify if the committee is recalled, followed by any officials that “oversee these types of applications in these types of security screenings.”
“For Canadians to have confidence in our immigration system, we need to know now, and in every case, every application and the due diligence and proper screening is done clearly,” he said. “That was not done in this situation, and lives were almost lost.”
