Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer says Canadians have a right to know how a man with alleged links to a foreign terror group evaded Canada’s screening process to immigrate to Canada and become a citizen.
He is demanding that the House of Commons recall its public safety committee to dig into the situation, calling on the Bloc Québécois and NDP to support that request.
Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his son, Mostafa Eldidi, 26, were arrested in Richmond Hill, Ont. on July 28 and face nine different terrorism charges, including conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Most charges relate to activities allegedly occurring in Canada, but the elder Eldidi is also charged with one count of aggravated assault outside Canada.
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The request from Scheer comes after Global News first reported that sources say the charge stems from a videoreleased by ISIS in 2015 …