Proving yet again that the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is on top of issues as they happen, Dr. Alex Wilner, an MLI Fellow, appears on the Vancouver Sun editorial pages today with a timely Op-Ed titled: Why we need to fight terrorism intellectually. He writes:
The rising threat of homegrown terrorism to Canada and its G8 and NATO allies was dramatically underlined by Wednesday’s terror-related arrests in Ottawa. But in addition to arresting those who actually plot such mayhem, we need a strategy for fighting the ideas that lead to it, delegitimizing terrorism among vulnerable groups in the population before it becomes a matter for law enforcement.
