https://www.cbc.ca/news/jihadi-jack-citizenship-canada-uk-isis-1.5253121So a British-born ISIS fighter gets captured in Syria. He as Canadian parents and is therefore a dual citizen. The UK has recently stripped him of hi citizenship. This is something that Canada could have done before JT changed the law. The only citizenship he has left is that of Canada, are we his responsibility?
According to Letts's father John Letts, who is from southern Ontario but lives in Oxford, the Kurds expressed willingness last year to hand his son over to Canadian authorities. He has also said Global Affairs Canada told the family for months that it was working to get Jack released, but the department then decided it was too dangerous.
Leah West, a lecturer in national security law and counterterrorism, told CBC's News Network on the weekend it's possible Letts could be prosecuted for terrorism offences in Canada. But the case for prosecution faces "hurdles" because Letts originally travelled from Britain — not Canada, said West, who's at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.
"There's crimes in the Criminal Code for leaving Canada to facilitate terrorist activity or to commit offences on behalf of a terrorist organization. Letts doesn't fall within that category. He's not susceptible to prosecution for this offence because he did not leave Canada in order to do that."
If the Kurds let him go, will we be stuck with a terrorist that's never lived in Canada because JT insists once a Canadian, always a Canadian?
Interesting moral question.