Debatte über einen ausländischen Spionagedienst für Kanada beeinflusst von Verbündeten, Geld: Studie

>The period from the 1990s to 2007 saw a number of proposals for a Canadian foreign intelligence agency “of varying detail and completeness,” Barnes says.

>“These proposals were driven by the concerns of officials in Ottawa about how best to adapt Canada’s foreign intelligence capabilities to meet the new demands of post-Cold War conditions and then the new international situation brought about by 9-11,” he writes.

>“They reflected Canadian — rather than allied — views of what was needed. But the debate within the bureaucracy was complicated by differing interpretations of what a ‘foreign intelligence agency’ was actually for, and by a blurring of the concepts of ‘foreign’ and ‘security’ intelligence.”

>Barnes reports this period was marked by competition between Canada’s foreign ministry and CSIS over which organization should take the lead in intelligence collection activities outside Canada.

What kind of self respecting ‚middle power‘ doesn’t have a foreign intelligence service.

This service is desperately needed in Canada. We are still such a naive country who is living in the past. Things have drastically changed and we are not changing with it.