Jessica Lourenco and Undercover RCMP Officer

downtown Toronto: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel TORONTO - A Pakistani man accused of plotting bomb attacks on downtown Toronto lied during his truncated testimony and his evidence cannot be believed, his deportation hearing was told Wednesday, according to Brandon Sun. In closing submissions, government representative Jessica Lourenco called Jahanzeb Malik a terrorist sympathizer bent on committing terrorism in Canada whose testimony was "evasive and frankly ridiculous." By contrast, she said, the undercover RCMP officer on whom the case against him rests, was honest and consistent under questioning. A secret recording device somehow failed during a key interaction in which Malik discussed blowing up buildings in downtown Toronto, an undercover RCMP officer testified on Wednesday. However, Malik lawyer Anser Farooq called it suspicious that the officer secret recording equipment apparently failed during a key interaction. The agent testified how Malik repeatedly expressed support for al-Qaida, and played videos showing Islamic State atrocities, such as mass executions and beheadings. Farooq also noted the government provided no audio and called some of the officer testimony "fanciful." The government, which wants to deport him, maintains Malik, 33, is an Islamic extremist who tried to recruit the officer for a plot to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial district buildings. "This was not a passing suggestion," said John Oliveira, Lourenco co-counsel. "This is a person who has clearly given it a lot of thought." In testimony at the Immigration and Refugee Board hearing earlier Wednesday, the officer said he initially knew nothing about Malik but was tasked in September with hiring him to do flooring in a "prop house" and then getting him to live there. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.