Two women and three children did not show up at a meeting point, a lawyer said, while two other women were arrested when the flight landed in Montreal
who for years had been held in detention camps in northeast Syria for people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State, are now back in Canada. They are the first large group of Canadian detainees from the region to be repatriated, an outcome they battled with the federal government in court to achieve. But many more remain in Syria, their fates still uncertain.were supposed to be 19 people on the group’s flight.
. More than a dozen other Canadians remain in Syria, among them four men the Federal Court ordered repatriated in January. The government has appealed that decision. He said the detainees who didn’t make it to the meeting point were two women and three children, and that attempts were made to locate them. He said he is confident that Global Affairs Canada will make its best effort to bring them home as agreed.Mr. Greenspon also represents a Quebec woman who is still detained in Syria with her six children. They were not part of the court agreement in January.
In Montreal on Thursday, reporters asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why the Quebec woman and her children were not aboard the flight. Mr. Trudeau said Canada is serious about its responsibility to protect Canadians in difficult situations overseas. But he said the government must also “make sure we’re doing everything necessary to keep Canadians safe here at home.” He said he would not comment further, for operational reasons.
“We reiterate that it is a serious criminal offence for anyone to leave Canada to knowingly support a terrorist group and those who engage in these activities will face the full force of Canadian law.” “They are Canadians, and they have the right to return, they have the right to be protected from the abuse of their human rights throughout this process. And Canada so far hasn’t done a very good job,” she said.
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