Canada Relatively Safe From Attacks but Shouldn’t Be Complacent: Terrorism Expert

A woman lights a candle in front of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, France, on Oct. 30, 2020. A man stabbed three people to death in the church on Oct. 29. AP Photo/Daniel Cole

Canada is not at the same level of risk as France when it comes to terrorist attacks, but that doesn’t mean we should be complacent, says Phil Gurski, a former analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and an expert on Islamic terrorism.

“France is in deep trouble right now and there’ll probably be more attacks, but I don’t see anything like that picking up here at the moment,” he said in an interview.