Increased scrutiny of Canada’s intelligence culture is overdue
Christian Leuprecht is a professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, and author ofwho has been leaking intelligence assessments to The Globe and Mail is putting everything on the line: the person risks jail time, the revelations could well bring down the government , and the actions could be injurious to the country’s reputation.
That the government obfuscates, minimizes and deflects issues that don’t suit its agenda is par for the course. It is the prerogative of democratically elected governments to exercise discretion on whether and how to act. Countries contend with run-of-the-mill espionage and democracies have an imperative to contain intelligence excesses to counter it.
Australia in particular has a track record of regular, periodic commissions and inquiries as a proven intermediary to shed light on opaque matters of national security and intelligence. The Royal Commission on Espionage examined an extensive espionage operation the Soviet Embassy had been running for the better part of a decade. In 1973, the country’s attorney general had the Commonwealth Police Force raid the Australian Security Intelligence Organization’s offices and question staff.
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