“The director has said, quite literally and on multiple occasions: ‘We can’t do our jobs any more.’ That’s how serious the problem has become.” “When the CSIS mandate was written in 1984, the most sophisticated technology we had was a fax machine,” Carvin said. In his 2018 speech, Vigneault suggested it required a dramatic shift in priorities from terrorism to foreign interference, calling the latter the “greatest threat to our prosperity and national interest”.īut the shift has required a deftness uncharacteristic of a large, bureaucratic agency, prompting frustrations from within that the necessary tools to combat foreign interference are lacking. In a separate case, a staff member alleged bullying, discrimination, abuse and religious persecution, and his lawyer argued that CSIS was “broken”.Īmid the institutional tumult, the agency is facing a broader crisis of identity. In 2017, CSIS was at the centre of a C$35m lawsuit, which it later settled, after it was accused of racism, homophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination. This lack of interest, however, has masked the lawsuits and legal condemnations of the agency. The muted role of the agency in political culture, and the reality that intelligence has not typically influenced Canada’s foreign or national security policies, means little has trickled down into the public consciousness. “We have never dealt with a situation like this.” But in Canada, leaks are incredibly rare,” said Stephanie Carvin, an associate professor of international relations at Carleton University and a former national security analyst. And British intelligence has long used leaking strategically. “The joke about American intelligence is if you want to know what they’re thinking, just wait three days and you’ll see it in the New York Times. It also diverges from allied nations’ agencies in how restrained it is when it comes to handling sensitive information. It cannot detain or arrest people, and its intelligence cannot be used in prosecutions.
“They’re probably concerned about not adding fuel to the fire by saying something the leaker feels compelled to contradict with more information, more documents and more allegations.”Ĭreated in 1984 in the wake of failures within Canada’s federal police agency, including allegations of illegal conduct, CSIS monitors threats to Canada’s national security, operating inside the country and abroad. This is very, very bad for them,” said Jessica Davis, a former intelligence analyst at CSIS and the president of Insight Threat Intelligence, a consultancy. “CSIS probably just really hopes this goes away as quickly as humanly possible. The publicity-shy agency has remained largely silent as the political crisis has deepened. In the months since intelligence documents were first shared with two Canadian media outlets, it remains unclear if the leaks are coming from within the agency or from disgruntled bureaucrats in the federal government who have access to CSIS documents. Despite his frustration, the leaks have persisted. When Vigneault appeared before parliament in early March, he lamented that the leaks were “very serious” and revealed the agency’s investigative methods and possibly its sources. They have also put an uncomfortable spotlight on an organisation already grappling with allegations of a toxic work environment and deep internal rifts over its future. The allegations of Beijing’s meddling attempts have caused political turmoil and ruined at least two political careers. Period.”īut the operations of CSIS have become headline news after months of leaks of intelligence documents that suggest China has a sophisticated election interference network across Canada. Well, the first rule of CSIS has always been ‘don’t talk’.
And you will know that the first rule of Fight Club is ‘don’t talk about Fight Club’.
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“Most of you remember the movie Fight Club.
I’m just as disappointed as you are – on both fronts,” its director, David Vigneault, said in a speech in 2018, poking fun at the service’s largely uncharismatic reputation. “I look nothing like Daniel Craig, and I did not arrive here in an Aston Martin.
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