Separately, a man who identified himself as Douglas McLaughlin, with the RCMP headquarters in Surrey, phoned a Vancouver Sun-Province reporter Wednesday afternoon seeking the contact information of a man quoted in a 2014 Vancouver Sun story.
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Canadian media reported that a police operation had taken place in Strathroy, Ontario, about 225km (140 miles) south-west of Toronto.
In Strathroy, resident Irene Lee said late Wednesday that since about 4:15 p.m., police had been camped outside the home where Driver lived.
The RCMP said Wednesday afternoon that it has received “credible information of a potential terrorist threat”.
They wouldn’t say, however, if the suspect has been arrested, but did say there was no threat to the public.
Lee said there were up to 25 marked and unmarked cruisers outside a home on a street right behind her parents’ store.
After his Liberals unseated the Tories in a general election previous year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scaled back Canada’s participation in the coalition, ordering the withdrawal of Canadian fighter jets but increasing the number of military trainers in Iraq.
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RCMP have detained an individual after warning in an internal government memo that information had been received of a potential terror attack in Canada today by a lone suspect.
