Security certificate cases and Canada’s failure to use the intelligence it collects

CSIS must work within the law and must have oversight (as it does in spades), but it must also be allowed to do what we ask it to do. If the government continues to ignore the security advice CSIS gives, it calls into question why we have such an organization working for Canadians.
Perhaps it is time to have CSIS collect intelligence to evidentiary standards, as some other nations’ spy agencies do, writes Phil Gurski.

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