Andy Laut

: In declaring Malik inadmissible on national security grounds, Immigration and Refugee Board member Andy Laut cited evidence from an undercover RCMP officer, who had befriended the 33-year-old flooring contractor, according to CTV. The agent had testified Malik was a Sunni extremist who professed sympathies for terror groups. Jahanzeb Malik, who will not contest the decision, is now expected to be deported within the next several weeks. Among other things, the officer said Malik showed him videos of ISIS beheadings, asked about making explosives, and told him he had received weapons training in Libya. "The evidence provides credible and compelling reasons to find that Mr. Malik was motivated to do so by his jihadist ideology and planned to do so for the purpose of intimidating the population." A handcuffed Malik, who was appearing for a detention review via video link from a prison in Lindsay, Ont., showed little reaction when his lawyer, Anser Farooq, gave him the news. Malik planned and intended to carry out an attack by car bombing a building in the financial district in Toronto," Laut said. "Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.