Western Standard - August 13, 2024


HANNAFORD： Obviously, immigration screening is completely fouled up


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

145.53075

Word Count

845

Sentence Count

58

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

A man accused of ISIS membership became a Canadian citizen and is now charged with planning a terror attack in Canada. How can that happen? In 2015, Islamic terrorist group released one of their revolting propaganda videos in which a man was shown hacking away at another man suspended from a crane. It is not clear whether the man wielding the sword was alive or dead.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You are listening to the Western Standard Podcast, and this episode features an opinion column by Nigel Hannaford published on 7th, August 2024.
00:00:10.680 Hannaford says, obviously, immigration screening is completely fouled up.
00:00:15.520 Man accused of ISIS membership became citizen and is now charged with planning terror attack in Canada.
00:00:22.920 How can that happen?
00:00:24.040 In 2015, the Islamic terrorist group has released one of their revolting propaganda videos.
00:00:30.000 In which a man was shown hacking away at another man suspended from a crane.
00:00:35.300 It is not clear whether the man hanging from the crane was alive or dead.
00:00:40.260 It is alleged, however, that the person wielding the sword was one Ahmed Furad, Mustafa and El Didi.
00:00:47.120 Now, 62. Subsequently, Mr. El Didi moved to Canada and was granted Canadian citizenship.
00:00:54.600 Then, two weeks ago, he was arrested along with his son and arraigned on terrorism charges.
00:01:01.600 The details have now been placed under a publication ban.
00:01:05.260 However, apparently edged weapons were collected by the police at the scene of the arrest.
00:01:11.840 The two remain in custody.
00:01:13.640 How can anything this stupid happen?
00:01:17.020 Seriously, this is beyond incompetence.
00:01:20.480 If you merely apply for a loan, your bank will do a better background check on you than Canada's immigration office did on these people.
00:01:28.940 And we have to believe that, by the way.
00:01:30.920 We must, because the alternative is to believe that Citizenship Canada knowingly overlooked El Didi's allegedly connections and the vicious sadism of which he is suspected,
00:01:43.020 that they further considered them to be of no consequence, or may even look the other way for reasons too nefarious to contemplate.
00:01:51.260 Much as we deplore the government led by Justin Trudeau, it strains belief to suppose that even he would countenance such a thing,
00:02:01.140 or that members of the civil service would comply with it were they so instructed.
00:02:05.860 For the conservative opposition, Andrew Scheer has demanded an emergency meeting of the House of Commons Public Safety Committee
00:02:15.080 to ascertain how somebody with a resume like El Didi's could slip through the net.
00:02:20.260 Although the Trudeau liberals will think that a tiresome partisan overreaction, it is absolutely the right place to start.
00:02:29.500 Apart from any mayhem, El Didi is accused of contemplating the chilling thing here, loaded with unfortunate implications,
00:02:38.040 is that a Canadian passport usually gets you easily across the U.S. border.
00:02:42.240 But now that the process of getting one has been shown faulty, unable to filter out people you don't want,
00:02:49.040 one could hardly blame the Americans for getting super sensitive about Canadian passports.
00:02:56.280 Uncontrolled immigration on the southern border should not imply approval for uncontrolled immigration in the north.
00:03:03.320 Let us say, however, that the committee does meet.
00:03:06.540 What might it find?
00:03:08.580 The unspectacular truth is this.
00:03:10.360 There was no malice, no ill will, no obscure and nefarious man.
00:03:15.760 This is just how this liberal government does things.
00:03:18.620 Almost everything, unfortunately.
00:03:21.080 For what the Trudeau liberals love is the grand gesture,
00:03:25.140 the photo opportunity that supports some supposedly illustrious aspiration to greatness and goodness,
00:03:33.080 especially in the marked-off areas that mean something to the inner circle,
00:03:37.520 climate change, for example, or trans rights, and in their peculiarly masochistic way,
00:03:43.940 finding things for which they can apologize on behalf of people who are not responsible for them.
00:03:49.520 Thus, we will plant two billion trees.
00:03:52.860 We will build a dozen submarines,
00:03:55.280 and let us keep the flags at half-mast for six months
00:03:58.400 to apologize for the murder of indigenous children at Kamloops.
00:04:03.240 These big pictures, they will happily announce.
00:04:06.460 But they're not details people.
00:04:08.440 They have no interest in doing government.
00:04:11.160 You know, the dull Korean duties of office,
00:04:14.260 in which financial statements are balanced,
00:04:17.400 people are accountable for their work,
00:04:20.140 and getting it right is the necessary first step in getting it done.
00:04:24.360 It is an eternal, amateur hour.
00:04:27.860 Civil servants long resign to knowing that they labor as one who digs a hole for dirt to fill another,
00:04:34.360 a chevy to support government goals by earnest young partisans operating way above their experience or expertise,
00:04:41.960 yet appointed to ministerial staff positions.
00:04:45.500 Bad decisions are taken.
00:04:47.440 Mistakes get made.
00:04:49.400 So, there are no trees.
00:04:50.920 There will never be a dozen submarines.
00:04:53.880 And if there are bodies buried at Kamloops,
00:04:57.120 proof has yet to be produced.
00:04:59.460 But by the way, for a mere $60 million,
00:05:02.480 we can build a COVID app to manage international arrivals.
00:05:06.940 Don't worry, it'll work fine.
00:05:08.020 We know these people.
00:05:09.660 In this case, the Public Safety Committee will almost certainly find that
00:05:14.600 to meet the Trudeau liberal government's insane priority,
00:05:18.460 to bring in half a million people a year,
00:05:22.320 half a million prospective liberal voters.
00:05:25.080 A cynic might say,
00:05:27.100 the word went out to cut corners and dispense with some of the regular steps and checking.
00:05:31.960 It's almost certainly that simple.
00:05:34.300 And also, they're dangerous.
00:05:35.880 People might have got killed.
00:05:37.000 Thank you for listening.
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