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Feb 14, 2024 · Bisson says he still has faith in the ability of Canadian security organizations to keep the country's intelligence safe --- despite the seeming rise of bad actors trying to...
Sep 19, 2024 · The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) provide intelligence that bolsters Canada’s cyber resiliency and helps protect Canada’s critical infrastructure from threats posed by domestic and foreign hostile actors.
Sep 19, 2024 · Canada’s intelligence priorities centre on the pressing issues of climate change and food security alongside violent extremism, Arctic security and espionage, a newly released document shows.
- Federal Court Has Pushed Back at CSIS
- CSIS's Request For 'Modern Tools' Questioned
- Who Gets to Hear CSIS's Secrets?
- Government 'Will Always Work with Security Agencies'
In recent years, the Federal Court has ruled against CSIS over its approach to foreign intelligence. Just this month, a judge denied the service's request to collect foreign information, ruling that a proposed technique would stray beyond the spy service's legal mandate. The court has noted in the past that Parliament imposed the "within Canada" re...
Vigneault also said the act needs to be updated so that the service can "use modern tools and assess data and information" — in part to keep up with the flood of information. "When the CSISAct was drafted in 1984, telephone books and alligator clips on phone lines were among the tools used to identify threat actors and collect information. Informat...
CSIS also has signalled it wants Parliament to take another look at the part of the act that says who it can provide classified briefings to. Section 19 of the act says the agency can advise "the government of Canada". Townsend said the agency can still give "sanitized threat overviews" and unclassified briefings to external stakeholders, but stres...
Updating the CSIS Act was not mentioned in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's mandate letter to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair. The minister's spokesperson, Mary-Liz Power, said the government is opening to working with CSIS but wouldn't say if the Liberal government would undertake a review of the law any time soon. "Canadians expect their governm...
Mar 2, 2023 · The RCMP says it wasn't able to run a criminal investigation into allegations of foreign interference in the 2021 election because intelligence reports don't always translate into evidence —...
Why aren’t we ensuring that Canada’s democratic process is safe from manipulation? 😨 Reports on the 2019 and 2021 elections revealed serious breaches—like the testimony from the former ...
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Sep 3, 2021 · Volume 65, No. 3 (September 2021-Special Issue) Review: Top Secret Canada: Understanding the Canadian Intelligence and National Security Community. Stephanie Carvin, Thomas Juneau, and Craig Forcese (eds.) (University of Toronto: 2020), 317 pages, graphics, index. Reviewed by Joseph W. Gartin. Download review of this book.
