“We should have the right to know”.
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“I would be very curious to find out if the RCMP had been monitoring and he had been breaching, but they didn’t breach him”.
Details of how Driver died have not been released. The takedown was the talk of the town, they said, and many were still feeling uneasy. “There was a picture of Christian kids being assassinated, and he said they deserved it”. But I think because of the pressure from civil liberties, and organizations like that, the RCMP backed off.
Meantime, transit agencies in Toronto were warned of the security threat before RCMP confronted the suspect in southern Ontario.
“It was a race against time”, RCMP deputy commissioner Mike Cabana told a news conference Thursday in Ottawa as he described in chilling detail the deadly events of the previous day.
The would-be attacker, Aaron Driver, 24, sought to launch a suicide mission in a public area, according to a police official.
The RCMP said in its statement that the investigation was still underway and it would not provide further comment.
Ross said the TTC issued a “see something, say something” notice to its workers, but said the warning did not include any specifics about which stations might have been affected and what the threat was about. There’s not a cookie cutter to how we do those things.
Anne Marie Aikins says the agency raised its level of vigilance and worked closely with national, provincial and local forces in response.
“This is a person – a Canadian citizen – who has not been charged with a crime. and yet he’s going to be subject to 24-7 Global Positioning System monitoring”, said association president Corey Shefman.
Following these attacks, the Conservative government passed a bill giving the RCMP and Canada’s spy agency sweeping powers to thwart terror plots and prevent Canadian youth from flying overseas to join IS militants in Syria.
“For me, having two kids and my wife and a possible terrorist … sympathizer down the street, it’s kind of … it’s a little insane”.
Last year, federal authorities kept Driver in custody on suspicion that he might have ties to a terrorist group.
April of 2015: Driver allegedly in contact with United Kingdom youth who were later arrested for their role in a terror plot targeting Australia.
Driver came to the attention of Canadian authorities in 2014 after posting tweets in support of the IS group and justifying a Muslim convert’s killing of a sentry at Canada’s national war memorial during an October 22, 2014 attack that spilled into the nearby parliament building.
Driver was on Canada’s terrorist watch list, and he posted frequently on social media under an alias about sympathizing with ISIS.
In February, Driver’s lawyer and the prosecutor agreed to a peace bond stating there are ‘reasonable grounds to fear that he may participate, contribute directly or indirectly in the activity of a terrorist group’.
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When he was released he was ordered to wear a tracking device and was banned from going on the Internet or having any communication with the Islamic State group, including having any object on his person that bore an Islamic State group logo.
