Threat assessments up to date for 90 per cent of missions, with the rest ‘on track’ to be done by March, says Global Affairs

With only 55 per cent complete at the end of March 2019, the results to date are 'encouraging,' and the turnaround suggests a priority was placed on this goal, says former diplomat Roy Norton.

Global Affairs Canada, overseen by Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau, says it will complete threat assessments for all missions abroad by the end of March. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

March 2, 2021

Global Affairs Canada says 90 per cent of Canada’s missions abroad have up-to-date threat assessments, two years after a federal audit found the department

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