A foreign intelligence service for Canada

In the wake of the current debate on foreign interference, we have an opportunity to create a unique organization that can enhance Canada’s foreign intelligence collection and safeguard our security and sovereignty. There is no better time than the present.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, pictured. On March 17, 2003, then-Liberal MP David Pratt introduced a private member’s bill to establish the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency. It would fully reflect the views of the McDonald Inquiry and the service would operate abroad to collect foreign intelligence from human sources, writes Pratt. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID PRATT

August 8, 2024

In August 1981, the federal government published the results of the Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The report represented three years of research under the chairmanship of Justice D.C. McDonald, a ...

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