Counting Terrorism Charges and Prosecutions in Canada Part 2: Trends in Terrorism Charges

The Anti-Terrorism Act 2001 brought Part II.1 of the Criminal Code into being and with it, Canada’s terrorism offences. In the twenty years since that time, 62 individuals have been charged with terrorism offences by our counting. This blog post is not meant to be a comprehensive overview of the field. Instead, we set out merely to remind the reader of what constitutes a terrorism offence in Canada and then review some of the trends that we can see from the prosecuting and charging numbers to date.

Criminal Law, TerrorismMichael Nesbitt and Harman NijjarJune 24, 2021Terrorism, Terrorism offences, Terrorist group, Terrorist financing

Counting Terrorism Charges and Prosecutions in Canada Part 1: What does the data say?

This blog post is a medium for providing a series of tables that provide information on all terrorism cases and charges to date—a public release of information collected over the past five years that, I hope, will be of interest to students, lawyers, national security practitioners and academics. The tables strive to provide further information related to each of these cases, such as the specific offences charged, whether individuals were convicted or not, their sentences, and so on.

Criminal Law, TerrorismMichael Nesbitt and Harman NijjarJune 17, 2021Terrorism, Terrorism offences, Criminal Law

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