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TORONTO — An “active participating member” of a Pakistani terrorist organization was recorded at a Toronto mosque saying he hated Canada and had been sent here on a “military mission,” an immigration official alleged at a hearing Friday.

During the arrest of Mohammed Aqeeq Ansari police seized an electronic device containing an audio file in which he said he was “sent back to Canada from Pakistan on a military mission he can’t speak of,” the Canada Border Services Agency said.

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“Mr. Ansari also professes his hatred of Canada and the United States,” CBSA officer Jessica Lourenco told the Immigration and Refugee Board, outlining the results of Project Seashell, an investigation by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.

A 30-year-old Pakistani citizen who immigrated to Canada in 2007, Mr. Ansari returned to Canada on April 12 following five-weeks in Pakistan, but it was unclear when the comments in question were recorded or at which Toronto mosque.

He was arrested by the RCMP Immigration Task Force on Oct. 27, just days after two fatal attacks against Canadian Forces members in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec and Ottawa by men espousing Islamist extremist views.