Terror Threat: International and Homegrown Terrorists and Their Threat to Canada.

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

The authors, two former Canadian military intelligence officers, here offer a primer on terrorist threats to Canada. Their appendix lists all the groups labelled by Ottawa as terrorist—a litany of Sri Lankan Tamil, Sikh, various Muslim, Armenian, and other groups—and the authors reprint some of the major terrorist documents issued in Canada, including those by the FLQ before and during the October Crisis of 1970. This is useful, but so are the case studies they present, listing infrastructure targets, chemical, biological, and nuclear threats, and outlining how suicide bombers work and how assassination is part of spreading terror. This is not a “how-to” book; instead, it is a manual that is intended as a wake-up call for Canadians who—against all the evidence—believe that terror can’t happen here in our peaceable kingdom.