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HALIFAX, N.S. —

An Arab-Israeli man living in Nova Scotia who claims to have worked undercover as a counter-terrorism operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says he has four more days to live.

The man spoke to The Chronicle Herald detailing his involvement in undercover operations based in Halifax that stymied planned terrorist attacks and saved many Canadians. But the man who claims to have worked for the Canadian intelligence agency for a period of four years is slated to be deported on Sunday. The 34-year-old man did not want his name published. He’s certain terrorist organizations would order him killed.

He’s already posted a YouTube video, explaining his life and death situation and pleaded with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to save his life. He’s shown masked with his voice altered.

If he returns home he says his fate is certain: he will be outed as a spy and eventually killed. The man believes he’s been abandoned by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service which he said promised him permanent residency in Canada in exchange for his service. That never transpired.

“I was never given an explanation by CSIS for why they let me go and I never even got a thank you,” said the man. “I may be considered a spy by terrorists but I never considered myself a spy.

“I’ve been living in this country for 12 years and I always considered it home. My feeling is that I was doing a service for my country. It’s not something I’m ashamed of.”

Halifax immigration lawyer Lee Cohen confirmed that he’s been working on the case for three weeks and that Canada Border Services Agency of Canada has initiated a removal order for Sunday.

Cohen said the man does not have CSIS documentation proving he was promised permanent residency. But the lawyer, who’s worked on CSIS-related cases before, also said the absence of official paperwork isn’t unusual given the highly secretive nature of the work being conducted by a CSIS operative.

Cohen said he believes the man did work for CSIS based on the detailed documentation the man provided him, including names of CSIS employees.

“This chap’s very, very detailed information about the assignments that he had while a CSIS operative seem very real to me.”

The man’s story in Canada begins in 2008. After arriving in Canada legally he applied for refugee status. His refugee hearing was scheduled the following year but he says he was homeless at the time and never received notice of it. As a result he missed the hearing and he faced a deportation order.

But he remained in Canada and made his way to Halifax the following year. In 2012 he contacted CSIS and made his offer. He informed the organization that his ex-partner’s family had ties with the terrorist group Hezbollah. He was a wealth of information, plus he’s a computer programmer and expert hacker. He said he received no complaints about his performance and all the while CSIS was promising permanent residency.

About a year after he was let go from CSIS, the Department of Immigration came calling in 2017. He was asked to fill out a pre-removal risk assessment application, which the department uses to determine if a person’s deportation puts their life or freedom at risk. But because he was told never to disclose his involvement with CSIS the man didn’t disclose his service on the application. That didn’t seem to be a problem until this past June when an immigration officer got in touch again, saying the application fell short and that’s when the deportation order for Sunday was issued.

Cohen said he’s trying to get the removal order stayed in order to file a new pre-removal risk assessment application. He said he made several attempts to pursue this with CSIS head office in Ottawa as well as Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, who oversees the organization, and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, but has yet to get a response.

The man participated in several highly classified operations in Halifax. In 2014 he was instrumental in the arrest of a Halifax university student affiliated with al-Qaida.

The Saudi Arabian student’s brother was killed in Syria while fighting for al-Qaida. The man spent weeks surveilling the student and formed a relationship with the Saudi student after responding to an online furniture ad.

“He was pro-Isis, al-Qaida,” said the man. “He was planning to do revenge for his brother. I had to spend days and nights watching him, surveilling his home. He was removed from Canada as a result of what we did. He was planning an attack in Halifax.”

The following year he participated in an operation involving a man from Africa who converted to Islam from Christianity.

“He was pro-ISIS, looking around to buy guns and he was recruiting. His dream was to replace the Statue of Liberty with an ISIS flag. I actually went camping with him and his recruits several times.”

Back in 2011 the man was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident after a car accident on Cole Harbour Road. He said his car hit a bus stop bench that ended up striking a woman standing nearby. He said he tried to help the woman who ended up with an injured ankle. He admits he made a mistake leaving the scene before police arrived.

In the end, Cohen said he’s had past clients who’ve been offered the same promise by CSIS and left in the same circumstances of his current client.

“If he worked for four years with CSIS then he has provided quite a service to Canada. In return for that service he shouldn’t be removed from Canada. It disturbs me so much that in return for providing that service he is being removed from Canada and CSIS and the Department of Immigration don’t seem to care.”

CSIS would not provide comment saying it is the department’s “mandate to protect Canadians from threats to national security at home and abroad.”

“As you can expect, we do not publicly comment, or confirm or deny the specifics of our investigations, methodologies or activities,” said department spokesman John Townsend.

The Department of Immigration could not provide comment by end of day Tuesday.