© Hussein Malla/Associated PressKurdish soldiers from the anti-terrorism units escort a blindfolded Indonesian man suspected of ISIS membership, at a security centre in Kobani, Syria, in June. The Canadian government does not have a policy of targeted assassination for its foreign fighters.
Even the interviewer seemed surprised at the answer Rory Stewart, the U.K. minister of international development, gave about how Britain should deal with citizens who chose to leave the country to join ISIS.
"I'm afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are a serious danger to us, and unfortunately the only way of dealing with them will be, in almost every case, to kill them," Stewart told BBC Radio's John Pienaar last month.
Stewart, a former diplomat, continued: "These are people who are executing people ... who have held women and children hostage, who are torturing and murdering, trying, by violence, to impose their will. Our response has to be, when somebody does that, I'm afraid, to deal with that."
Those words may sound chilling, but they reflect a country that's suffered several brutal jihadi attacks in recent years, and sees jihadi returnees as a threat. Other countries have come to the same conclusion.
But Canadians who join the militant group have so far had little to fear from their own government, either at home or abroad.
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