“Police north of Toronto have charged a father and son after officers found explosive materials and a detonator device at a home in Richmond Hill, Ont..Reza Mohammadiasl, 47, and his son Mahyar, 18, were arrested….and charged with one count each of possession of an explosive device following a search of their home.” Chemicals were also seized and the neighborhood was evacuated.

“The family told neighbors they were originally from Iran.” One neighbor reported: “This is shocking…..They have lived there for six years and they have always been very nice people.”

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale rushed to say that “the arrests and charges are a local matter that concerns York police and there is no known connection to national security.” It isn’t the first time that Goodale has been dismissive about public safety in his mandate of public safety.

Global News pointed out at the end of November in 2017 in reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanting to reintegrate Islamic State jihadists into Canadian society: “Common sense forces us to ask why. Who the hell wants this kind of crud to be among us?” Then under intense questioning by the opposition Conservatives about a Canadian Islamic State jihadist, Goodale “refused to provide details on the status” of the IS fighter “who made an apparent confession to an execution-style killing in Syria”. Goodale undermined the threat by saying “police and security officials are taking all necessary steps to “keep Canadians safe,” but he did not indicate what steps would be taken and how effective they might be.

A Conservative Government report showed in 2014 that 130 Canadian citizens had “gone abroad to join terrorist groups, including 30 believed to be fighting in Syria. In Calgary, five of those young men are linked to one downtown apartment building, which has a mosque on its ground floor.”

Jihadists are roaming among Canadians while the Liberal government downplays it. Last year, leaked intelligence documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) showed a greater threat of Islamic terror than the government admits to the public that it should be protecting. A former Yazidi sex slave in Canada experienced the trauma of seeing her Islamic State captor and rapist in Canada. In fact, CSIS has indicated that “Extremists returning to Canada have the potential to pose a significant threat to our national security.”

In returning to the case of explosive materials and chemicals found inside the Richmond Hill home: neighbors were understandably left horrified and shocked as all Canadians should be. Although nothing is confirmed about motive of the Iranian pair–Reza Mohammadiasl and his son Mahyar–in this case, the underlying threat to public safety is obvious. All the while, the Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale will not acknowledge nor confront the threat.

“Father, son charged after explosive materials found inside home in Richmond Hill, Ont.”, CBC News, May 14, 2019: