A Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service

[OldSolduer]

The vast majority of the people should have no idea, if its done well.

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

I fully agree but there's always one who leaks shit out.

 

[FSTO]

I would wonder about oversight. Our parliamentary committee system doesn't strike me as all that robust and secure; certainly not enough to deal with matters that are potentially very sensitive and possibly very un-Charter-ish.

What would be the policy goals? Do we want to protect the Canadian state or effect change elsewhere? Protect Canadian intellectual and industrial capacity? Better domestic laws and walls might do the same. Rotting in a jail for a few decades, not a few years, for helping a foreign state might help.

There are dark forces at work in the civilian criminal world. Would we be ok with our cops colouring outside of their lines?

I say all of this with a knowledge base of spook work coming from movies and TV.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but have we even had an inquiry into our Covid response? Or how our governments (municipal, provincial, federal) failed to control/stop a small group of protestors. If we can't/won't do that, how the heck do we think we have the maturity to control a foreign intelligence service?

 

[KevinB]

I fully agree but there's always one who leaks shit out.

3 can keep a secret if 2 of them are dead…

 

[captloadie]

Would it be considered ironic that individuals caught doing illegal activities in a foreign country holding a Canadian passport (like has happened frequently in the past), were actually Canadian?