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Public Hearing Audience publique - Commissioner / Commissaire The Honourable / L’honorable

7 Dec 2022

I became the Director of CSIS in 1994, and in 19 2004, I became the Deputy Minister of National Defence, and 20 subsequently, I was the Coordinator for Security and 21 Intelligence -- Coordinator for Security through the Olympics 22 and the G8 and the G20 on behalf of the Federal Government, 23 which is my background in these subjects. [...] 24 A comment, rather than a statement, because I 25 wanted to make sure that I said it: One of the things that I 26 found strange in the lead up to the Commission, and through some 27 of the testimony, was the focus on the importance or the 28 relevance the interpretation that CSIS gives to the definition INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC. [...] 6 The reality is the Service interprets that 7 provision in the context of its role of its responsibilities in 8 terms of the limitations imposed on it and the limitations that 9 are inherent in any -- in the management of any intelligence 10 service. [...] If the 23 Commission can successfully write what I call the first draft of 24 the history of the Freedom Convoy including the intelligence 25 piece -- got it, Kent -- and determine recommendations to 26 improve the performance of the intelligence system writ large, 27 it will have done notable work in the public interest. [...] 22 The fact that the Federal Government did not have 23 a wide swatch of intelligence reporting upon which to rely, one 24 would like to have more, but the reality is the Service came to 25 the conclusion, and I think rightly so, that it -- that the 26 protest did not rise to the level of the section in the CSIS Act 27 as a threat.

Authors

International Reporting Inc.

Pages
177
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Canada