Canadian Police Official Warns 'traditional Values' May Be Sign A Person Is Becoming 'extremist'

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spokesperson warned Tuesday that a personification abruptly embracing "traditional values" could beryllium a motion they are becoming an extremist.

According to CTV news, Canadian national constabulary arrested and charged 4 Quebecers - 2 of whom look to beryllium progressive members of nan subject - who were allegedly progressive successful "ideologically motivated convulsive extremism."

"Three of nan individuals person been charged for taking actual actions to facilitate violent activity and 2 person been charged pinch various offences related to weapons possession," CTV reported.

RCMP spokeswoman Staff Sgt. Camille Habel said astir nan alleged militia crippled to prehend onshore successful Quebec during an question and reply pinch CBC. During 1 information of nan interview, nan CBC big asked for tips connected "what nan nationalist tin do successful bid to beryllium vigilant aliases what they tin do to thief successful trying to guarantee that location is information and information connected that front."

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police board, connected April 10, 2024, successful Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Well, radicalization successful wide rather often will show by group isolating themselves and changing their behavior, for illustration changing what they're saying connected a subject, for illustration becoming much extremist," Habel said. "If personification you cognize believed successful adjacent gender authorities but each of a abrupt are leaning towards, like, traditional values and that mightiness beryllium a motion that they’re becoming much extremist."

The charismatic past appeared to drawback herself and cautioned, "But we besides person to retrieve that having nan astir extremist views is perfectly ineligible successful Canada and that it's only acting pinch unit to beryllium that position that becomes a criminal offense."

Habel’s declare that holding accepted values hints astatine extremism sparked swift backlash connected societal media, to nan constituent that different RCMP spokeswoman worked to locomotion backmost her comments.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spokeswoman Staff Sgt. Camille Habel sparked a activity of backlash.

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"The RCMP is successful nary measurement implying that embracing accepted values makes an individual extremist aliases extreme," spokeswoman Marie-Eve Breton told The Epoch Times successful a connection connected Wednesday.

"It’s nan observed and sometimes abrupt alteration successful one’s behaviour, beliefs aliases goals as good arsenic tolerating nan usage of unit to execute those goals, that could beryllium 1 of respective factors that awesome a displacement towards extremism," Breton added. "Each lawsuit would person to beryllium examined connected a case-by-case ground and each indicators would person to beryllium considered successful their totality."