In counterpoint to Dr Leuprecht's nationalist preening, consider the dismal security and confused, uncoordinated response to the parliament hill shootings. Also that the recent terrorism attempt by Aaron Driver was actually uncovered by the FBI.

As usual, our inherent advantage in geography gets internalized as superiority. I'm sure if we had to deal with the same massive influx of unscreened, undocumented middle eastern refugees and migrants every hole in our security apparatus would be tragically exposed as well. 

We can be certain the Germans' have other strengths that we do not and I'm not convinced that publishing smug and superior opinions, from a senior security commentator employed by our military college, is productive.  Schadenfreude is an ugly trait.

PS: it's been well documented that the RCMP counter-terrorism effort has come at a significant cost to other policing priorities, most notably combatting organized crime. You don't get something for nothing.