I'm really glad to see articles like this raising the question of how we apply terrorism charges in Canada. There is a clear & fundamental problem with which crimes are labeled "terrorism", when racist mass murders don't qualify but the murder of an individual w/ a hammer does.
But it also raises the question of whether the solution is labeling more acts as "terrorist" or whether we should be questioning that label, & Canada's terrorism laws, for being fraught with politics and subjectiveness...
... and instead focus more on which crimes and acts pose the greatest threat to our communities (recognizing that plenty of people, incl. people cited in this article, are already doing that).
It's also been pointed out that tools like the List of Terrorist Entities have a questionable impact on preventing crime; raise concerns about due process; allow for the use of secret evidence & intelligence; & offer only an illusion of a delisting process tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
There is a terrible double standard around which organizations are deemed dangerous / are listed, and the govt does need to do more to address white supremacist & hate-inspired crimes. But the solution may not be adding more groups to this list.
