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It didn’t take long for Toronto cops to make a cash grab in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. But what’s most disturbing is that included in the “enhanced emergency management” plan submitted to the mayor last week is a request for $13.5 million over the next three years for “intelligence support.”
“There are many individuals and groups that should be monitored and investigated,” the report says. Since preventing terrorism is the jurisdiction of CSIS and the RCMP, we can already imagine the peaceful activists who would end up on chief Julian Fantino’s watch list.