Public Safety committee  It's been said earlier, and I think Mr. McAleer talked about it. The roots of hate often don't start with hate. It starts with a sense of feeling disconnected or a lack of belonging. It's these issues of identity and belonging. Through a series of happenstances, one of the areas

Public Safety committee  There are comparable circumstances. I'm concerned that Europe is going a bit far in what it's proposing to do, but they also have a very different context and a different history. I guess my short answer to you would be that we can pick and choose things that are relevant to us,

Public Safety committee  The dark web essentially refers to that portion of the web that is not easily publicly accessible. The dark web actually constitutes about 90% of the Internet. As much as we all see it as large, the vast majority of the Internet—the dark web—is everything from personalized system

Public Safety committee  —was able to key in on a variety of issues that it always does, including the fear of government, etc.

Public Safety committee  To rephrase a little bit, my concern is that we are even thinking in terms of what it is that we expect of them, beyond simply following—as you put it—their terms of service. If we look at this from the perspective of the extreme right, all of these attempts essentially feed thei

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for reading my article. I'm so excited. By “perfect storm”, what I was thinking of was that the far right has always had significant mechanisms or been oriented towards weaponizing any kind of opportunity: Never let a good opportunity go to waste. I'm sorry t

Public Safety committee  I think we are not. Within the agencies that are tasked with doing this, there are simply not enough resources to deal with the broader picture. Many of our agencies are tasked with dealing with day-to-day threats or things that are imminent. In terms of analyzing data, the proje

Public Safety committee  —really good work being done right now by Stats Canada. More could be done. We're moving in the direction, but there's more to go.

Public Safety committee  —that we are afraid of them and that we need to essentially not be afraid of these—

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to speak with you today. I am an associate professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University and the associate director of the institute on violence, terrorism, and security. I've been researching extremism for so long now that when I began