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More worrying is the last condition available for Ali if the hospital agrees: to enter the “community of Hamilton, within a 2 km. radius of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton-West 5th Campus, for education purposes only, indirectly supervised.

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“Indirectly supervised?” How is that Ali is already being fast-tracked to freedom after only his very first ORB hearing? On the heels of the conditional discharge of cop killer Richard Kachkar, is it any wonder that many have little confidence in a system that is so quick to release people deemed dangerous to society?

The reasons for the board’s decision on Ali will be released in a week or so, according to an ORB spokesman.

The ORB’s mandate is to impose the least onerous conditions while maintaining public safety. But are we to feel secure that they’re already willing to allow him into the community just two years after this very sick man could have killed three soldiers?

On Mar. 14, 2016, Ali forced his way into the Yonge St. recruiting centre intent on becoming a jihadi martyr.

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At the entrance, he punched the first soldier repeatedly in the head, then took a large kitchen knife from a folder he was carrying and lunged at him, slashing and stabbing at him with the knife, causing a three-inch gash to the corporal’s arm.

A sergeant rushed out of her office to see what was happening and Ali gave chase with his knife and narrowly missed slicing the back of her neck. He then tried to slash and stab at another sergeant, who in the chaos had slipped on spilled coffee and fallen to the ground.