should canada create a a national counter terrorist center

[sean m]

Hello

I was wondering if anyone here felt that Canada should create a national counter terrorism center like the U.S. has. Considering the past events in which terrrorism was stopped displays that there is a great threat to our country. It would do what the American version does, integrating terrorism threats ( groups, individuals, countries etc) and put them in a database to be used for prevention, protection and if necessary the use of action. It could also be structured like the American version bringing in all the everyone (CSIS, CSEC, RCMP, army INT, police) etc together. I believe the american version does not gather home grown terrorism. I a Canadian version of this would do well putting together both home grown and international terrorist threats since both are just as important. There was a picture in the media of a young child holding a toy gun for a Al Shabab ceremony in Somalia. I think this picture clearly demonstrates how this threat of terrorism will not end soon, so perhaps this idea of a national counter terrorism center would not be a bad idea.

Thank you

 

[aesop081]

army INT

I'm sure you understand why military INT, in Canada, cannot gather and pass along intelligence on Canadians.

 

[Edward Campbell]

What makes you think there isn't one?

Why would you think you (or I) should know about it?

Secrets are good things.

 

[Ex-Dragoon]

There was a picture in the media of a young child holding a toy gun for a Al Shabab ceremony in Somalia. I think this picture clearly demonstrates how this threat of terrorism will not end soon, so perhaps this idea of a national counter terrorism center would not be a bad idea.

The kids in my neighbourhood play with toy guns all the time. Does this mean they are budding terrorists?

 

[57Chevy]

As kids, My brothers and I made rifles out of planks of wood. With a clothspin, a real good elastic band, and a whole whack of bobbypins, it was a warzone in the field behind our house. We also used firecrackers as grenades and burned each others hay forts to the ground. It was real fun. None of us are terrorists.

 

[aesop081]

There was a picture in the media of a young child holding a toy gun for a Al Shabab ceremony in Somalia.

The kids in my neighbourhood play with toy guns all the time. Does this mean they are budding terrorists?

As kids, My brothers and I made rifles out of planks of wood. With a clothspin, a real good elastic band, and a whole whack of bobbypins, it was a warzone in the field behind our house. We also used firecrackers as grenades and burned each others hay forts to the ground. It was real fun. None of us are terrorists.

Al Shabaab is an Islamic insurgency group in Somalia. The full name is "Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen " which stands roughly for "Mujahideen Youth Movement "

 

[Old Sweat]

What makes you think there isn't one?

Why would you think you (or I) should know about it?

Secrets are good things.

What he said.

 

[the 48th regulator]

Canadian National Counter Terrorism Centre  <----- Hi Sean, Please Click link.

dileas

tess

 

[TimBit]

There is. It is called Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, and is found here:

http://www.itac-ciem.gc.ca/index-eng.asp

You have been told before. Search before you post.

Cheers.

 

[FormerHorseGuard]

I remember playing cops and robbers ( I was always the cop) never thoguht about terrorism. I remember bringing a rifle to Highschool and picking up a rifle at school for a friend so he could take it home from the range, not allowed to take it on the bus home.( High Schools had indoor ranges back the army cadet days at the schools in the  up till the late 60s) I went to school in the 80s and early  90s

times have changed, but never became a terroist

 

[ArmyRick]

Sean m,

Maybe next you will suggest we hire Jack Bauer as the lead for the Canadian Counter Terrrorist Center?

 

[aesop081]

times have changed, but never became a terroist

But you never walked with those rifles with other people wo also carried guns and were members of a terrorist organization. While i dont much like the OP posts, in this one, he expressed concerns with children with toy guns participating in ceremonies for a know terrorist group.