Career
Coming from a German and Irish background, Heft spent his childhood and majority of his life in a small town outside of Toronto. He began his community involvement in 2003, and since then, has gone on to take part in a variety of government and community initiatives. Foreign all of Canada, and he holds this position today.
In 2008 he started the Stop Terrorism cause, which is a global and online cause which claims to have 20,000 members.
Through this program he has helped many youth who have turned towards radicalization and brought them away from that destructive state. Judge Dawson court approved Heft in 2010 as a de-radicalization counsellor in for Steven Vikash Chand, one of the “Toronto 18” arrested for involvement in the 2006 Ontario terrorism plot.
Heft continues to support government agencies on efforts of de-radicalization and is also supported by former MPs of the federal government, Derek Lee and Dan McTeague. Canadian Broadcasting Company:
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