This is curious: ITAC is saying that the Edmonton knife attack was an "act of domestic extremism and that it was the first incidence of political violence in Canada in a decade." What about the Quebec Mosque shooting? Incel attacks? London van attack? globalnews.ca/news/1077642...

‘Salad bar extremism’ has come to Canada, intelligence report says | Globalnews.ca

Edmonton city hall attack was part of trend of extremist violence fuelled by mix of motives.

*firearms attack

According to my count, there have been dozens of incidents of political violence since 2014. Not sure what ITAC is on about. newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/rising-thr...

Rising Threat: The Surge of Ideologically-Driven Terrorism in Canada

From ITI Labs: Data on terrorist attacks in Canada

it's extremely blinkered. How could a task force like ITAC miss the other recent terrorism here?! Or are they trying to separate it because those perpetrators had a singular focus/justification to their attacks? (which doesn't excuse the "first incidence of political violence" ignorance)

Given that they put quotes around the word genocide when speaking of Gaza, perhaps the author thinks that violence is only political when BIPOC do it.