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Originally Posted by Vertigo3000
The Boston bombers were proven to have no affiliation with any terrorist group, and the VIA rail incidnt may have been heading for New York with the train. And the threat of terrorism in Canada is most likely the same threat that England and France is under, England may be at a higher risk than us. The US is barely at risk from terrorism, they used to be but not anymore. Terrorism is not a speific country origin or army, it's just gangs of extremists that could come from any country or background, IRA jihad etc. So every country is and has always been threatened.
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I think you're being overly optimistic. Just because the threat is lower doesn't mean it's minimal.
I'd agree that Canada is a low-level target but it depends on what happens. If terrorists decided to attack the allies of their primary target , Canada would be ideal for a number of reasons. Despite what a lot of Canadians would love to believe and take every opportunity to expound on , we're not really that different from our southern neighbour. Culturally we're nearly identical and our general value system is the same.
Today the greatest threat comes from Islam but tomorrow it could be separatists , right-wing ultra-libertarian types , or who knows who else. We don't live in a vacuum either so if Falun Gong were to become a terrorist organization , China went out of its way to really dig into them , and Canada went along with it , that would make us a bit of a soft target. That's just one example.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that the U.S. and Canada aren't working together very closely in regards continental defense. Nor should you forget that just because terrorists haven't been particularly successful at penetrating U.S. defense networks that they've given up. They most certainly haven't and it's unlikely that they'll do so any time soon.