The country's spies are copying some of their methods from Canada - but Canada has its own problems with a fixation on Islamic terrorism.
The Security Intelligence Service's recent annual review says it's using new terminology taken from its Canadian counterpart - to talk about threats.
That means using 'Faith Motivated extremism' to describe one end of the threat and 'Identity Motivated Violent Extremism' the other, that white supremacists inhabit.
But Tim McSorley of the watchdog International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group in Ottawa, says though a January 2017 attack on a Quebec mosque that killed six people was a catalyst for the change - evidence since suggests balance is still lacking.
He spoke to Phil Pennington.
