Investigators are expected to address the media at 10:30 a.m. PT.
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Canadian intelligence and police officials were familiar with Driver due to his alleged support for Daesh, an Islamist terrorist group also known as ISIS or ISIL, CTV News reported.
He added the information the TTC was given Wednesday was “very general about a credible threat that was being investigated by police but it had no location, it didn’t even say a city as far as I know”.
They wouldn’t say, however, if the suspect has been arrested, but did say there was no threat to the public.
Aaron Driver, 24, was killed during a possible terror threat, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Later, the Crown announced some of Mr. Driver’s bail conditions had been lifted and he would not be going to trial.
After a 2014 shooting rampage by a lone gunman at Parliament in Ottawa, a Canadian police report said the attack that killed a soldier showed that Canada was “ill-prepared” to stop terrorist attacks.
Driver, who once published instructions for Muslims trying to reach Syria, was released on a terrorism-related peace bond in June 2015, days after police raided his suburban Winnipeg residence, the Star reported a year ago.
Police have shot and killed a suspected terrorist in a raid in the Canadian province of Ontario on Wednesday evening.
He had been under a court order not to associate with any terror group and faced 18 other court ordered conditions.
Rules prohibiting Driver from using a computer or mobile phone were to be in place until the end of August.
After his Liberals unseated the Tories in a general election a year ago, 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.
“These agencies conducted themselves effectively in the circumstances that developed today”, Mr. Goodale said in a statement.
Len Tailleur, Mr. Driver’s former lawyer, said he was “aghast and shocked” to learn of Wednesday’s events.
The threat level for an extremist attack in Canada is still at “medium” in the country.
“Saddened to hear that it had to end this way for him”, Mr. Tailleur said in an email to The Canadian Press.
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