Canadian Police Arrest Tommy Robinson After Calgary Speech Decrying Government Overreach
Notoriously soft border security agency lets Islamist migrants live freely and proselytize in Canada, but sends armed squad to arrest English activist on speaking tour
Yesterday, on June 25, in Calgary, Alberta, Canadian police arrested UK activist Tommy Robinson. At least six police officers showed up to arrest him at the venue where he had just received a standing ovation for his speech about censorship and government overreach.
While handcuffing him, the plainclothes officer making the arrest told Tommy he was subject to an outstanding immigration warrant. The small squad made up of both plainclothes and uniformed officers — did they really need so many? nothing more urgent for these officers to take care of? — escorted him to a car and took him to the station. They would not allow him to collect his belongings.
In the car, the officer told him the warrant was signed by “the Minister’s delegate… the Director of CBSA”. The Canadian Border Services Agency is under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Safety, so the Minister responsible for Tommy’s arrest would presumably be Dominic LeBlanc.
Tommy traveled from the UK to Canada last week for a speaking tour. He landed in Montreal, where he met for a long-form interview with Dr. Gad Saad, best-selling author, professor, and podcast host at Concordia.
Rebel News organized speaking events for Tommy in Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto.
And last (but certainly not least), an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson was in the offing. Dr. Peterson, just like Dr. Saad, is a best-selling and world-renowned Canadian author, academic, and commentator who hosts a popular podcast.
It seems unlikely that Tommy will be able to attend the Edmonton and Toronto events, but it sounds like Dr. Peterson is undeterred and will do a remote interview if Tommy can’t make it to Toronto.
After booking, the authorities released him, but under some conditions that include remaining in a very particular part of Alberta THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE EDMONTON — for an indeterminate period.
At the Calgary event, Tommy spoke about the dismal state of free expression, with a focus on his homeland. In telling the story of how he became one of the UK’s best-known campaigners against the mass importation of Muslims into Britain, he said the following about serious ongoing social problems created by immigration:
People whispered about these issues. The fear of being branded racist was that powerful: they managed to get the entire nation in fear and in silence from speaking openly and honestly about our problems.
That same fear, silence, and self-censorship exists in Canada. The Canadian government (just like the UK government) is notoriously hard on citizens who protest the entry of undesirable foreigners into Canadian territory, and notoriously soft on the dangerous anti-western migrants those citizens complain about.
CBSA has granted countless anti-western ideologues entry and freedom of movement in Canada, and to add insult to injury, the Canadian government also provides costly welfare support to them.
It’s anybody’s guess how many Islamists receive social assistance monies while they form terror cells, run conscription programs, incite hatred against other groups, plot murderous attacks, and fundraise to send money across the globe to other members of their terrorist networks.
When convicted Algerian Islamist terrorist Ahmed Ressam arrived from France at the Montreal airport in 1994 and presented a fake passport, border security detected it as a fake and busted him.
That’s good, right? So, what’s the problem?
After being busted for his fake passport and properly identified, Ressam told Canadian officials that he was falsely accused of terrorist activities by the Algerian authorities, and he claimed refugee status.
So of course, this being Canada, officials set him free into Canadian society.
Apparently, as crazy as this sounds, Canadian government policy is to take holders of fake passports at their word about other matters of import as soon as they claim asylum.
Ressam lived in Montreal, not working, but surviving on a small monthly welfare payment and the money he got by robbing people. He was arrested a few times, convicted once (fined, not jailed), yet continued to roam free and receive welfare.
Eventually, his application for asylum was denied, and authorities in Canada issued a warrant, but never located him. He assumed a new name, using a forged baptismal certificate to get a passport. Using this new identity, he moved around within Canada, and also traveled abroad for terrorist training and networking, and to scout locations to attack.
He selected the LA airport as a target for bombing. In 1999, he got explosives ready in Canada, packed them into a rental car, and took a ferry to the USA.
Ressam was ultimately (thankfully) caught by American customs agents when he crossed into the US on the car ferry from Victoria, British Columbia. One observant American customs agent noticed Ressam behaving suspiciously, and flagged his car for a search.
During the years between his arrival and capture by US authorities (1994 -1999), security officials in France found evidence linking Ressam with violent terror activities — evidence that included a paper scrap with the phone number of his Montreal apartment, found on the body of another terrorist. French authorities alerted CSIS (Canadian Security and Intelligence Service) and asked the Canadian government to issue a warrant and find him.
CSIS claims to have acted on all this French intel, but clearly, Canadian law enforcement failed abysmally in their security duties, and never caught the Algerian terrorist.
Below, you will find statements* made by prominent Canadian Government representatives in the wake of Canada's abject security failures in this case.
Bill Bauer, former member of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board said the following:
If the person concerned claimed refugee status, at that point it would be almost certain that he or she would be released into the public at large; told to submit a claim for refugee status within 30 days; and then be available for a refugee hearing, which might not take place for nine or ten months or even a year and a half because of the backlog.
It's quite possible for someone to stay in Canada on welfare and with shelter provided for at least three years before a final determination.
So basically, if you are caught with a false document, you can simply say, "I claim refugee status because I was persecuted," or "I am in danger of persecution and the only way I can get out of my country is with a false passport." The passport, of course, might not even be of the country of origin or somewhere else, as was the case here. So there is really ... no constraint against a person using false documents. And of the 30,000 refugee claimants arriving in Canada every year, 60 percent of them arriving have either no documents or claim to have no documents or have false documents, and they all stay and they all proceed with their claim. So that it is not a barrier.
Very, very few people who are turned down for the refugee claims are actually deported. Some may even leave voluntarily, but we have no way of checking it. We don't control departures. We have no record. Some may actually be deported, but these are usually cases where there is something about the person which presents a threat to Canadian security.
There are not enough personnel or resources to follow up on rejected refugee claimants and make sure that they leave the country, whether by the formal process of deportation or at their own time. So it's very, very easy for people . . . to simply avoid any consequences at all.
I always assumed in my experience that anyone who committed a major crimes after arriving in Canada could not possibly be a genuine refugee -- otherwise, why would they take the risk? Why would they engage in this sort of activity? This is not generally accepted by the courts, though. Serious crimes committed before arriving in Canada can be taken into account when arriving at a judgement about whether a person is a genuine refugee or not. Crimes committed in Canada after making your claim are not considered relevant by the court, unless they are crimes which would involve more than ten years of imprisonment in Canada. In practical terms, that means murder, essentially.
David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said the following:
The lessons of Ressam are many, and many of them are quite scary. The passport control and regulation aspect is unbelievable.
We are already playing a significant role in international terrorism funding. We have 50 terrorist organizations of a variety of descriptions here, and a good number of those are the so-called the world class ones.
There is the perception internationally that we in Canada are simply not meeting our obligations on the level of counterterrorism, in the sense that we are allowing organizations of a terrorist nature to fund terrorism worldwide; that we are seen as a place to come for recruiting and indeed for planning and organizing, as the Ressam case itself demonstrated.
We need a gigantic cultural shift in this country. We are not used to seeing ourselves at the front line of any major struggle. But there is a war on. It's a global, terrorist-based war that we are all going to be facing, and it is increasingly going to be coming home here to Canada. We have got to get our laws and our attitudes into line to meet the threat before it's too late. We may need to look at legislation changes. But, above all, all of us have got to be more aware that no matter what kind of emphasis we want to place on multiculturalism and the benefits of diversity, some of those issues open us to struggles that are going on around the world, and that we don't want to have come home.
As a Canadian, I am uncomfortable with the idea of keeping people in custody. But I can no longer deny that that might be the only appropriate solution as we find more and more lethal people among some of our immigrant stream. In terms of Islamic extremists in Canada: as they regard the proximity of Canada to the U.S., it's making Canada a kind of Islamic extremist aircraft carrier for the launching of major assaults against the U.S. mainland, and that is something we have got to remember.
Elinor Caplan, Liberal Party Minister of Immigration spoke these words:
When we know that we are dealing with individuals who are doing everything that they can to evade detection, there are challenges. Can I tell you that it will be perfect in the future even with policy changes? The answer is, of course not. We are living in a world where we value our freedoms and we want as open a border as possible.
It's my understanding from the department that they had difficulty obtaining travel documents, and that Mr. Ressam was not cooperating in giving us the information that we needed to secure those travel documents. He was in a removal stream. He was hiding out, he was changing addresses, he was making it very difficult.
We are very aware of how easy it is to get fraudulent documents. ... Over the last few years, since the Immigration Act was amended to give us the authority to seize documents, over 4,000 documents were being imported into this country, helping exactly those people to get a blank document from overseas. You fill it out, and you can go get a Canadian document that looks pretty good.
I was as upset as anyone else with the story as it unfolded. I was pleased [Ressam] was caught. But it is important for people to know that he was denied refugee status in Canada, that he did not convince anyone that he should receive protection from Canada, and that a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Tommy Robinson came to Canada at the invitation of upstanding and even renowned Canadians, to speak about a serious problem we are facing: western governments are not merely failing to protect their citizens from hostile anti-western immigrants, our governments are literally facilitating the incursion of hostile anti-western immigrants.
Of course, not all newcomers to Canada are anti-western, and only a few are convicted terrorists like Ahmed Ressam.
But even when hostility and danger are clearly evident, Canadian authorities often prove either incapable or unmotivated to deny entry. In fact, they seem happy to provide welfare money and accommodation and years of free access to Canadian society to pretty much anyone who shows up.
Authorities made noises about tightening up security in the wake of the Ahmed Ressam disaster, and some policy changes occurred, but did security improve at all?
Just this week, a trio of Islamists were convicted of murdering a man in Missisauga. The evidence that emerged in that trial included the fact that these murderers were/are members of an ISIS cell that runs a dawa centre and fundraising network that operates with impunity in Ontario.
Not much media attention was paid to this case, and I saw no news about anyone else from this network being captured by authorities. I guess unless/until the other ISIS terrorists from this group commit their own murders, the government plans to leave them alone to do their Islamist thing.
The current Liberal government, instead of being tough on violent extremism imported to Canada by immigrants, is tough on anyone they consider to be guilty of Islamophobia or xenophobia.
Liberals created a new federal position to fight “Islamophobia”, while creation of a similar position to fight antisemitism is being held up, apparently by caucus dissent.
Extreme new hate speech laws (which will likely be used predominantly against “far right extremsists” and “Islamophobes”) have been proposed, even as mobs of Islamists and their leftist allies display open Jew-hatred in Canadian streets.
Jew-hatred, xenophobia, and supremacism are endemic in the Islamic world. Open animosity toward Jewish people under the guise of “anti-Zionism” was tolerated for years at annual Quds Day rallies in Canada, but since the Oct. 7 massacre, aggressive displays of antisemitism and violent threats and acts against Jewish people, businesses, and institutions have become an everyday feature urban life in Canada.
In Toronto recently, a billboard truck stating “Zionism = Terrorism” was permitted to drive around with no official response, but a similar billboard truck showing a large group of Muslims praying in public in Canada and suggesting we are “under siege” by Islamists drew outrage from several Liberal politicians, and police announced they would investigate this truck as a hate crime.
Terms like “Islamic terrorism” are no longer used in CSIS reports; they’ve been replaced with generic terms like RME (religiously motivated violence).
Censorship has markedly increased of those who speak about the negative consequences of multiculturalism and immigration, and in particular of Muslim immigration, Islamic ideology, Islamic extremism.
For years, the UK government has subjected Tommy Robinson to lawfare because his activities bring attention to unsavoury problems that government immigration policies have caused, problems like Islamic terror attacks, loss of British culture and social cohesion, and the horrific plague of industrial-scale “Asian” rape gangs grooming and trafficking white girls in the UK.
The pro-Islamist, government-funded organization called Canadian Anti-Hate Network published an article this week proudly claiming at least part responsibility for Tommy’s Calgary arrest. Last Friday, they reported him to Public Safety and Immigration, “pointing out that Robinson was ineligible to enter Canada because of his criminal record and urging that he be removed from the country.” In the same article, they describe Robinson’s UK activism in the following way:
Robinson has made a name for himself promoting the idea of Muslim-led “rape gangs” operating en masse and unchecked “in every town and city that has an Islamic community”.
Notice where they placed square quotes. The insinuation here is that Tommy Tobinson inflated not only the size but the nature of this epidemic of sex crime by one particular ethnic group in the UK. This is a very telling (and damning) sentence by the Liberal party’s favourite “anti-hate” NGO — an organizaton whose hiring practices, by the way, have historically included showing preference for hate-spewing Muslim extremists.
The UK rape gangs are not theory but fact… proven-in-court type fact.
The vast majority of the sexual predators in these gangs are Muslim immigrants, and the vast majority of the victims are young white girls.
These rape gangs have been exposed in numerous UK cities. The stories of systemic abuse of young working class “white slags” by grown-ass (often married) immigrant men are stomach-turning, and the systemic coverups that occurred everywhere are similarly sickening.
Heaps of men have been convicted, and it is established fact that in many cases, local authorities knew, but did nothing to save underage girls from being traficked by Muslim sex predators. They didn't act for fear of being called racist, or for fear of the cultural/racial conflict that would arise in their jurisdictions if the truth got out.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s article about Robinson with its square quotes around “rape gangs” puts me in mind of Labour Party MP Naz Shah, who retweeted the following on social media in 2017, during the period when Tommy was rising to global fame as an anti-Islam activist: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of #diversity!” Critics of Shah like to point out that she never apologized, nor distanced herself from the sentiment in the retweet. It is charateristic of modern western leftists to believe that people should self-censor for the sake of diversity.
But this isn’t just a leftist tendency. Many Conservative politicians are likewise afraid of allowing open debate on inflammatory topics related to immigration. Many politicians particularly avoid the topic of mass immigration of Muslims to the west, and the resulting “clash of civilizations” that is occurring as large numbers of Islamic immigrants show little interest in assimilating to their new western homes.
Considerate people in western nations who value diversity, pluralism, and freedom of religion do not want to risk conflation of peaceful, productive Muslim immigrants with dangerous, parasitical Islamists. This is a valid concern, but the solution is not to outlaw criticism of Islam altogether, and punish those who insist on speaking critically about real problems within the religion.
In too many western nations now where people are rebelling against social pressures to self-censor “for the sake of diversity”, authoritarian leaders are stepping up to suppress dissent with ever more tyrannical anti-hate laws, speech codes, and various other cancel culture mechanisms. I guess they believe that a return to peaceful coexistence and stability in formerly “free” western nations can be achieved with increased totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
Like the UK government, the Canadian government offically downplays and/or avoids speaking of problems caused by recent waves of Islamic immigration, and takes punitive action against citizens who wish to speak honestly of these problems. No prominent politicans in Canada are seeking actual solutions to “clash of civilizations” problems. It is far easier at the moment to demonize those complaining about the rise of Islam in the west. Case in point: Conservative Premier of Ontario Doug Ford just ejected from caucus one of his MPPs — a Persian-Canadian former lawyer concerned about Islamism both in Canada and Iran — immediately after it came out that she held a video conference with visiting UK activist Tommy Robinson.
But our politicians had better look to Europe: the times are changing. Avoidance and suppression will not suffice as continued conflict increases pressure.
The failure to arrest Ahmed Ressam was a major international embarrassment for Canada in the late 90s. The politically-motivated arrest of Tommy Robinson 25 years later is another major international embarrassment for Canada.
*all the quotes above, of government officials speaking about Canada’s security failures in the aftermath of ahmed Ressam’s arrest, were taken from the PBS web page called “Is Canada a Safe Haven For Terrorists?”: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/trail/etc/canada.html#caplan
The radical left is destroying Germany as well.
A German woman gets more jail time than the "migrants" rapists she "offended":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlrpaVL9jI&list=TLPQMjYwNjIwMjSNtAnzC_dnXQ&index=4
Women's rights used to come first with the left, and not so long ago (remember the "me too" movement?)...but women's rights have been kicked down the list to be replaced with Islamists' rights and the LGTB/trans cult's rights (these two gangs cancel each other, giving the left a lot of migraines due to cognitive dissonance).
So now, to the radical left, it has become perfectly acceptable for women and girls to be raped as long as they are raped by brown people, preferably muslims and illegal migrants (we are supposed to call them "undocumented" so as not to hurt the feelings of these lawbreakers), or by biologically intact males who claim to be "women" (in prisons).
Regarding these matters, I need to say something that might not be intellectually profound but that is honest and deeply felt: fuck the radical left.
“ Very, very few people who are turned down for the refugee claims are actually deported. Some may even leave voluntarily, but we have no way of checking it. We don't control departures. We have no record. Some may actually be deported, but these are usually cases where there is something about the person which presents a threat to Canadian security. “
“ We are already playing a significant role in international terrorism funding. We have 50 terrorist organizations of a variety of descriptions here, and a good number of those are the so-called the world class ones.
There is the perception internationally that we in Canada are simply not meeting our obligations on the level of counterterrorism, in the sense that we are allowing organizations of a terrorist nature to fund terrorism worldwide; that we are seen as a place to come for recruiting and indeed for planning and organizing, as the Ressam case itself demonstrated. “
Nice write up CC. I did not hear a peep about the ISIS trio in Mississauga however, I see very little MSM. So many institutions are just so incompetent in the name of Diversity.