Robbing Peter to pay Paul in national security

Governments need to figure out a way to manage this national security resource shortfall.

Communications Security Establishment chief Greta Bossenmaier, pictured March 20, 2018, at the House Standing Committee on National Defence meeting in Centre Block.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

April 23, 2018

OTTAWA—Way back when I was an analyst at CSE, I recall a conversation with an workmate about who was more important to the organization (we were both young and full of piss and vinegar). He worked on the ‘Soviet problem’ and I was assigned along with a very small team to the "rest of the world...

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