The suspects are accused of stockpiling an extensive arsenal and conducting military-style training while building an anti-government militia, police said.

Four men — including two members of the Canadian military — have been arrested in what authorities describe as a terrorist plot to “forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City area,” a case a veteran extremism expert calls unprecedented.

Canada’s national police have arrested four men, including two active members of the Canadian Forces, alleging that they diverted items from the military in hopes of using them to create an extremist militia and take over a plot of land north of Quebec City.