Tag: CSIS

Wrongdoing, Threats to Security, or Something of that Nature

Published February 13, 2024 Podcast

The CSIS investigation into an Ontario Conservative nomination race

Federal Ministers Targets of ‘Violent Extremist Threats’ Ahead of Ottawa Convoy, Counterterrorism Report Reveals

Published September 1, 2022 New

Report suggests anti-vaxxers, far-right extremists now pose a greater threat to Canada’s national security than religious extremists

VIDEO: Law expert says Bill C-51 gives Canada’s spy agency power to violate the Constitution

Published March 15, 2015

This might leave even James Bond shaken and stirred. Speaking Friday at a Parliamentary committee looking at Bill C-51, University of Ottawa law professor Craig Forcese demanded the Conservatives “amend the bill to remove any reference to the Charter being contravened by CSIS. WATCH VIDEO NOW: Forcese and his colleague Kent Roach have written extensively […]

VIDEO: Conservatives think terror law checks & balances are just “needless red tape”

Published February 2, 2015

Sure, critics say Canadians may be watching their country turn into a surveillance state. But here’s one thing they don’t need to worry about: the Harper government promises it won’t create “duplication” and “needless red tape” — specifically democratic checks and balances on Canada’s spy agency. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney sought to put concerns about […]

Chuck Strahl’s defence: I’m no Arthur Porter

Published January 8, 2014

Updated Jan. 10, 2014 Canada’s top spy watchdog is trying to ride out a controversy over lobbying for Enbridge (and at least one other company that’s partnered with a Chinese-controlled firm to develop the tar sands in Alberta). Chuck Strahl, a former Conservative cabinet minister and current chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), popped up […]

Canada’s spywatcher calls the ethics czar A LOT

Published January 7, 2014

This is getting interesting. First, the Vancouver Observer broke the news that former Conservative cabinet minister Chuck Strahl, chair of the Security Information Review Committee (SIRC) since June 2012, is Enbridge’s newest pipeline lobbyist in British Columbia. SIRC is Canada’s spy watchdog overseeing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), so Strahl has access to the […]

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