Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the newly-announced National Security Council will be in charge of 'overseeing' and setting the 'strategic direction' for emerging challenges Canada is 'increasingly facing.'
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the newly-announced National Security Council will be in charge of "overseeing" and setting the "strategic direction" for emerging challenges Canada is "increasingly facing."
In a statement to media, PMO press secretary Alison Murphy described this council as "a new forum for ministers to deliberate on and address issues of pressing concern to Canada's domestic and international security.
The decision to strike this new panel now comes amid months of scrutiny on the federal government's handling of foreign interference allegations, and a series of stories and learnings at committee about federal security and intelligence organizations facing challenges in keeping up with emerging threats and communicating about them between agencies.
"One of the big debates we had when we replaced the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was the need to put parliamentarians in charge of overseeing our national security agencies… where parliamentarians from every party get to come together and see everything that our top national security agencies, all our national agencies are doing," Trudeau said.
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