Forty years on, CSIS deserves more respect

The Trudeau government doesn’t seem to have taken threats to Canada with the gravity they deserve. There can be serious security consequences for that neglect.

Then-solicitor general Bob Kaplan, left, signs the papers making CSIS official, with then-CSIS director Ted Finn on July 16, 1984. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Caddell

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

July 24, 2024

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Around this time 40 years ago, I was present at the creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The legislation creating the agency had been passed by the House and Senate a few weeks before, and it was proclaimed in mid-July. As an assi...

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