In this episode, Stephanie sits down with Jessica Davis and Michael Nesbitt to discuss recent developments in terrorism cases in Canada. First, in the wake of the tragic attack in London, Ontario, Crown Prosecutors have brought terrorism charges, possibly the first ever against an individual motivated by far-right extremism. What are the challenges in prosecuting this as a terrorism case? Next, they discuss an extremist travel case where one individual has pleaded guilty, but charges have been stayed against another. This leads the group to ask some hard questions about terrorism charges generally. Why are so few women charged with terrorism? Why are there so few terrorism financing and facilitation charges? And why don’t we know more about why charges are laid, dropped or stayed in these cases, leaving us with seemingly arbitrary decisions by the Crown? As with other areas of national security, more transparency is needed.

Check out Michael Nesbitt’s posts on terrorism charges in Canada on Intrepidpodcast.com

https://www.intrepidpodcast.com/blog/2021/6/15/counting-terrorism-charges-amp-prosecutions-in-canada-part-1-what-does-the-data-say

https://www.intrepidpodcast.com/blog/2021/6/24/counting-terrorism-charges-and-prosecutions-in-canada-part-2

Jessica Davis’ new substack on national security and illicit finance: https://insightintel.substack.com/subscribe