Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World.

J.L. Granatstein is a history professor at York University and author of
War and Peacekeeping and For Better or For Worse.

Stewart Bell of the National Post is the Canadian media’s leading expert on terrorism. He takes a realistic view of the problem, not dismissing it out of hand they way some do, but not pumping it up into an all-embracing plague. Still, his book, first published in 2004 and revised three years later, is a sobering document that states very clearly that Canada has turned a blind eye to the terror in its midst. The Tamil Tigers, for example, operated openly here, raising money from frightened Toronto shopkeepers while Liberal MPs (the other parties would have done the same if they had won election in certain constituencies!) cheered them on in return for votes. That terror group may have been overtaken by the final destruction of the Tigers in June 2009, but other groups—ranging from Sikh separatists to Palestinian and Muslim groups—recruited and planned here, as Bell details, scarcely impeded by our laws both before and after 9/11. The Khadr family, Canada’s favourite terrorists, rate a chapter of their own and, that saga continuing, Bell has room for a third edition.