{"id":157460,"date":"2026-08-06T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/157460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:59:08","slug":"marc-aurele-chabot-soldier-accused-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/157460\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc-Aur\u00e8le Chabot: Soldier accused of terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTREAL \u2014 A Quebec man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/montreal\/article\/military-member-charged-with-terrorism-wanted-waco-style-massacre-court-docs-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/montreal\/article\/military-member-charged-with-terrorism-wanted-waco-style-massacre-court-docs-say\/\">charged last year with facilitating a terrorist activity<\/a> is no longer a member of the Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Department of National Defence spokesperson Cheryl Forrest declined to provide further details about Marc-Aur\u00e8le Chabot\u2019s release, saying the information is protected under the Privacy Act. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chabot was one of three Quebec men charged in July 2025 with allegedly participating in what the RCMP alleged was an anti-government extremist plot in the Quebec City area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The RCMP alleged the accused planned to create an anti-government militia and took concrete steps to facilitate terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forrest confirmed a fourth suspect, who is facing weapons charges, is still a Canadian Armed Forces member but is not performing military duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The military had previously confirmed Chabot, who reached the rank of corporal, was serving at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier near Quebec City when he was charged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">None of the allegations against Chabot, which include the illegal storage of firearms and the possession of explosives and prohibited devices, have been proven in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 A Quebec man charged last year with facilitating a terrorist activity is no longer a member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,6885,290,113],"class_list":["post-157460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-defence","tag-national","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}