🇨🇦 Canada paroles a terror ringleader and calls it progress

Zakaria Amara helped lead the Toronto 18 plot to bomb the TSX, CSIS headquarters and a military base, and now Ottawa’s parole bureaucracy says he shows no signs of extremism and is ready for full parole at 41. That is the magic trick of the Canadian state: import instability, spend years pretending deradicalization is a science, then pat itself on the back when a convicted jihadist is cleared to live in his own home under managed supervision, as reported.

The board says his ideology began to shift in 2014, he has had four years of day parole without breaches, and now his internet, finances and contacts will still be monitored. So the man is supposedly cured, yet still needs restrictions on phone and internet use and bans on associating with extremists. Very reassuring. This is late-stage Trudeau Canada in one file: elite institutions gambling with public safety while ordinary Canadians are lectured about compassion, inclusion and rehabilitation theater.

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