How did they know what he had on his iPad?
They probably asked him why he was in Canada and he said ‘to give a speech’....so they asked where the speech was, and he pointed at the iPad. End of the story.
It gives you a bold new prospective on hate-speech and where it’ll go over the next decade.
The "story" didn't tell us much.
How did they know what he had on his iPad?
Probably checked it at the border. He may well be on a list of “anti-muslim” activists.
At the border, you have no rights.
A Canadian border agent demanded the password to my computer when I was there 8 years ago.
Give it to them or be arrested.
They suspected me of being a U.S. Military spy, I think.
I was taking lots of pictures.
I do not think they did, per se. In reading the article, the arrest seems to have been for a protest without a permit after having been denied to speak at an event based on his prior public statements. The overriding issue is still free speech, or the lack of it in The Great White North. Ask the publishers of Free Dominion.
All they ask me at the border is why I am visiting Canada, for how long, do I have any firearms in the car????
To have known about “hate speech” on an IPad meant the guy arrested was on some list, under investigation by “hate crimes” police in Canada.
The Canadians may have been working with US authorities like the FBI or organizations that affiliated themselves with the Obama Justice Department like Southern Poverty Law Center (has that mess been cleaned up yet?).