Canada is becoming a global problem that’s getting bigger every day, Indian security officials told CNN-News18 on Monday. A major concern is the Canadian immigration policy that keeps the country’s doors open to everyone, including troublemakers, the sources said. This allows criminals across the world to create problems for the local population and also radicalise some of the residents, they added.
Secondly, said officials, with these migrants settling down in large numbers, they are slowly eclipsing the local population, creating a possible hub for terrorist networks in the future.
This is creating new challenges for the security situation in the Americas, the sources said, as these criminal and terror elements can easily cross over to the United States and Mexico, making Canada a hotspot for drug networks and jihadi groups
According to an assessment shared with Indian intelligence teams by their partners, Canada can be a potential threat to the world due to a lacklustre political system and a poor response mechanism.
“Al Qaeda has operatives and intelligence gatherers in Canada,” said an internal report of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) written in the days after the terror attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. The report names several Al Qaeda agents, including a Toronto convenience store clerk and a teacher at a Toronto Muslim school.
At least two major Al Qaeda networks have operated in Canada, the Montreal-based Fateh Kamel group and the Ahmed Khadr group in Toronto, in addition to several smaller ones such as the Kassem Daher network, said sources.
“Al Qaeda’s global links, including to residents in Canada, and its use of sleeper agents— small groups of covert operators sent to infiltrate countries until called upon to attack—make its activities unpredictable,” said the CSIS report.
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