I'm with cplcaldwell on this one, this Steven Chand fellow seems to lack the foresight and discipline to complete his training. He seems to lack the focus to complete any task, makes me wonder how serious of a threat this guy actually was. This could have been much worse for the CF, imagine him overseas as a driver a C-6 gunner or worse translator. The danger of this type of guy is that he is very susceptible to be moulded by others. I wonder what came first his conversion to Islam or joining the CF.
Hopefully the CF can continue to embrace other cultures into our ranks, we have to for our own survival and effectiveness. Drawing the security clearance line in the sand at the door of the recruiter will break the system. Being able to recruit, train and employ soldiers is the greater need. There is risk in not screening people (beyond enhanced) before they join the reserves but it is an acceptable one. But more than any other time we must be vigilant when dealing with recruits without isolating individuals which will only excaberate the problem.
I dis-agree
I don't think you let people in just to get the numbers up. This is not the days of old were you are who you say you are and everyone wants to join because they love this country and want to defend it. I am not saying that everyone that joins is there to get trained to use it against us. But there are all kinds of people who would love to get in and get trained and get access to all the toys we have. Not just terrorist but organized crime OMG, and gangs are always looking for that door to be open and unguarded.
In my personal opinion the fastest way to end the CF is to lower the bar in order to bring the numbers up. an ounce of prevention......