Suspect entered Canada in June 2023

Accused granted student visa month before his arrival

- PETER EDWARDS

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said the U.S. attorney general contacted government officials to praise Canadian security officers for their work in the terror case.

A 20-year-old man accused of planning the mass slaughter of Jews in New York City arrived in Toronto in June of last year, after receiving a student visa a month earlier, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says.

“He was granted a student visa in May of 2023, and he entered at Pearson airport June 24 of 2023,” Miller said Tuesday at a Liberal caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C.

Miller’s comments come after Muhammad Shahzeb Khan (a.k.a. Shahzeb Jadoon), 20, who is originally from Pakistan, was arrested last Wednesday in Ormstown, Que., about 20 kilometres north of the New York border.