Trudeau to probe allegation Canada spy helped Smuggle UK Teens to Syria

Trudeau seemed to suggest that, while intelligence work can be a messy business requiring both flexibility and creativity on the part of covert government agents, those agents observe rigorous rules in handling their informants, even while operating in a dangerous world.

Shamima Begum was a 15-year-old British student when she and two other girls fled London to join Islamic State. They apparently met an interlocutor at a bus station in Istanbul who facilitated their onward travel to Syria.

It was revealed on Wednesday that the interlocutor, Mohammed Al Rasheed, was providing intelligence information to the Canadian government, even while maintaining separate activities to smuggle individuals to Islamic State.

"We know we live in a particularly dangerous world. The fight against terrorism requires our intelligence services to continue to be flexible and to be creative in their approaches. But every step of the way, they are bound by strict rules by principles and values that Canadians hold dear, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and we expect that those rules be followed. I know there are questions about certain incidents or operations of the past and we will ensure to follow up on this," Trudeau said.