Canada’s immigration minister said efforts are underway to consider revoking citizenship from a naturalized Canadian accused in a foiled ISIS terror plot.
Answering questions at a Wednesday morning press conference in Church Point, N.S., Immigration Minister Mac Miller said his office is investigating the possibility of reversing the Canadian citizenship granted to 62-year-old Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, who along with his 26-year-old son were arrested earlier this month, suspected of masterminding a thwarted terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State.
“Canadians deserve answers, I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” Miller told reporters.
“I’m also going to take the next step, which is to start the preliminary work with the evidence at hand, to look at whether the individual in question’s citizenship should be revoked.”
Miller told reporters he’s tasked his staff with piecing together the timeline of events that saw Canada’s immigration bureaucracy not only grant Eldidi permanent residence status, but also allowed him to become a citizen.
Miller told reporters he’s tasked his staff with piecing together the timeline of events that saw Canada’s immigration bureaucracy not only grant Eldidi permanent residence status, but also allowed him to become a citizen.
“I want to know what happened, when and how,” Miller told reporters.
“I hope to be able to provide answers in a relatively short timeline about what happened.”
Miller said he was “disgusted” over the situation, and has a responsibility to get to the bottom of what happened.
“The information that I can share in the context of criminal proceedings may be limited, but I want to make sure first and foremost that Canadians are safe, and that we do not compromise an ongoing court case,” he said.
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