In 2013, two CSIS agents knocked on the door of Christianne Boudreau and told her that her son, Damian Clairmont, had joined al-Qaida in Syria.
It was a shock for the Calgary mom, even after she questioned her son’s conversion to Islam a few years previously. What she didn’t know then, but can now see, were the early signs of radicalization of her son.
Here, she tells the Herald’s Dylan Robertson about how she now can see the early signs of extremist beliefs.
