IN 2001 WHEN ALL THE ADDITIONAL SECURITY WAS PUT IN PLACE AT OUR AIRPORTS AND OUR BORDERS A TERRORISM ALERT LEVEL PROGRAM SHOULD ALSO BEEN PUT IN PLACE. WE ARE NOT children; we will not panic if the threat level rises, but we may become extra alert to our surroundings and the people around us. We have “travel advisories, active contact between transportation security officials and transportation providers, a Government Operations Centre that monitors all hazards, and close cooperation between security and police agencies in response to an evolving threat situation.” While these advisories and contacts between securities of our country is needed and no doubt give us some protection it is NOT enough. The ordinary citizen needs to know too. We don’t need a nanny, we just need a government that informs us and lets us take some responsibility for our own safety too. I HAVE TO POINT TO THIS AND SAY THAT I HAVE “NO TRUST” IN THIS MAN, HOWEVER if his “declartion” saves even one person it will have been worth sitting through the watching of the video. Syed Soharwardy talks a good talk. One would almost believe that he is on the side of Canada and “moderate moslems.” Australia became the latest country to increase its terrorism alert level on Friday in light of the emergence of Islamic extremists in the Middle East. Last week, the U.K. did the same. Both countries — citing reports of their own citizens fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) and threats against the west — raised their public threat rankings to their second highest levels indicating a terrorist risk is ‘likely.’ If you’re waiting on Canada to do the same, don’t bother. While Canada may face the same risks as its commonwealth brethren, we don’t even have a public ranking system. The UK and Australia terror threat systems mirror the United States’ color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System — introduced by the Bush administration in 2002 — which ranged from green (a low risk of terrorist attacks) to red (a severe risk of terrorist attacks). Canada has no similar mechanism for public dissemination. According to Ministry of Public Safety, the Government of Canada has “a system of measures in place, including: travel advisories, active contact between transportation security officials and transportation providers, a Government Operations Centre that monitors all hazards, and close cooperation between security and police agencies in response to an evolving threat situation.” Wesley Wark, a national security, intelligence and terrorism expert at the University of Ottawa says that while Canada has never had a threat alert system, there was some debate about it after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The Canadian decision not to have a terror threat warning system was based on their reading of the American system and a feeling on the part of government officials that it was of very little value, subject to vagaries and even political abuse (messaging), and might mislead the public as much as inform it, Wark told Yahoo Canada News. Perhaps there was also some nervousness around the idea of a threat warning system that might impact on the Canadian societal fabric and produce unnecessary tensions in our multicultural system. Wark adds that the British experience has been different, “largely on the basis of a better public understanding of the reality of terrorist threats and because of long experience with alarms over Michael Zekulin, a terrorism expert at the University of Calgary has no doubt that Canada’s law enforcement have become more vigilant over the past several months in light of the ISIS threats but says he would urge the federal government to adopt a ”concrete” threat alert system. https://ca.news.yahoo/blogs/canada-politics/should-canada-have-a-terrorism-threat-alert-system-143339925.html
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