In the shadows of Canada’s progressive image lies an unsettling truth: for decades, the country has operated as a revolving door for the world’s most dangerous individuals. While its leaders drape themselves in virtue, professing an open-arms approach to immigration, the consequences of their recklessness have landed squarely on the doorsteps of both Canada and the United States.

The growing public frustration with Canada’s broken immigration system has placed increasing pressure on Ottawa to tighten its policies.
The cracks in this illusion are no longer hypothetical. They are now real, violent, and all too frequent. Whether through terrorist sympathizers who slip through the system unchecked or human smugglers exploiting the vast northern border, the consequences of Canada’s willful negligence are becoming impossible to ignore.
The Warning Signs Canada Refuses to Heed
Just months ago, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani national living in Canada on a student visa, was arrested in an FBI sting while attempting to carry out a mass shooting against Jewish communities in New York City. His plan, inspired by Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel, was designed to kill as many innocent civilians as possible. And yet, Canada — so insistent that its screening procedures are rigorous — somehow allowed him to settle in the country, study, and plot an atrocity just miles from the U.S. border.
Khan is not an anomaly. He is a symptom.
Last year, Mostafa Eldidi, an Egyptian national, and his son were arrested in Toronto while preparing to launch a large-scale attack on Canadian soil. Eldidi had already become a Canadian citizen, exposing a glaring failure in Canada’s naturalization process: not only are potential threats entering the country, but they are embedding themselves into the very fabric of its society.
Canada’s immigration system — once viewed as a model of modern governance — is, in fact, the weakest link in North American security. It is a sieve through whi...