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Canadian Security Intelligence Service
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, ; , ''SCRS'') is a Intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service and security agency of the Government of Canada, federal government of Canada. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world and conducting Covert operation, covert action within Canada and abroad. CSIS reports to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and is subject to review by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. The CSIS has no law enforcement function and mainly focuses on intelligence gathering overseas. The agency is led by a director, the current being interim appointee Vanessa Lloyd, who assumed the role on July 20, 2024. History Prior to 1984, security intelligence in Canada was the purview of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). However, during the 1970s, there were allegations that the RCMP Security Service – the predecessor to CSIS – had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Communications Security Establishment
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE; , ''CST''), formerly (from 2008-2014) called the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), is the Government of Canada's national cryptologic agency. It is responsible for foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) and communications security (COMSEC), protecting federal government electronic information and communication networks, and is the technical authority for cyber security and information assurance. Formally administered under the Department of National Defence (DND), the CSE is now a separate agency under the National Defence portfolio. The CSE is accountable to the Minister of National Defence through its deputy head, the Chief of CSE. The National Defence Minister is in turn accountable to the Cabinet and Parliament. The current Chief of the CSE is Caroline Xavier, who assumed the office on 31 August 2022. In 2015, the agency built a new headquarters and campus encompassing . The facility totals a little over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Vigneault
David Vigneault is a Canadian civil servant who served as the 9th director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) from June 2017 until July 2024.https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/csis-boss-david-vigneault-announces-he-is-stepping-down-after-seven-years-in-the-role Biography Vigneault worked at the Canada Border Services Agency and was promoted to "assistant director of intelligence" at the CSIS. Vigneault previously served with Assistant Director, Intelligence, and Assistant Director, Secretariat. He also served as Director, Transnational Security at the Communications Security Establishment, Executive Assistant to Deputy Minister of National Defence. Vigneault progressed to the position of "assistant secretary to cabinet advising on security and intelligence" in 2013. Vigneault made headlines on February 9, 2021 when he spoke to the Centre for International Governance Innovation. In his first public speech since he was appointed Director, he named Russia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michel Coulombe
Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), Spanish former footballer and manager * ''Michel'' (TV series), a Korean animated series * German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'' * Michel catalog, a German-language stamp catalog * St. Michael's Church, Hamburg or Michel * S:t Michel, a Finnish town in Southern Savonia, Finland * ''Deutscher Michel'', a national personification of the German people People * Alain Michel (other), several people * Ambroise Michel (born 1982), French actor, director and writer. * André Michel (director), French film director and screenwriter * André Michel (lawyer), human rights and anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader in Haiti * Anette Michel (born 1971), Mexican actress * Anneliese Michel (1952 - 1976), German Catholic woman undergone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Richard Fadden
Richard Brian Marcel Fadden (born September 1951) is a Canadian former civil servant who was the national security advisor to the prime minister of Canada and an associate secretary to the cabinet. He retired from that position on March 31, 2016. He had previously served as the deputy minister for the Department of National Defence from 2013 to 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was previously the deputy minister for Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2006 to 2009. Early life and education Born in September 1951, Fadden attended McGill University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science, the Université de Montréal where he earned a Bachelor of Laws, and the University of Ottawa, earning a Graduate Diploma in Law. Career Fadden spent his career as a civil servant, beginning in 1978 as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of External Affairs. He moved to the Security and Intelligence Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jim Judd
James Judd (born August 1947) is a Canadian retired diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was appointed to the position by Liberal prime minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the end of his term. He was succeeded by Richard Fadden, the former Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Early life Judd was born in August 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. Before entering university, he lived in Germany and the Netherlands, and several places in Canada, including Edmonton, Fort Nelson, Whitehorse, Carleton Place and CFB Borden. He graduated from Carleton University where he received his Honours B.A. in political science and a master's degree majoring in international relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Career Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Between 1973 and 1987, Judd worked in several pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dale Neufeld
Dale Neufeld is a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He was appointed to the position of Acting Director on 31 May 2004, succeeding Ward P.D. Elcock, and ran the service until Prime Minister Paul Martin chose Jim Judd as the new Director on 29 November 2004. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Neufeld joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1971 and left in 1984 to join CSIS. He was Deputy Director from 2001 to 2004. On 8 March 2005, Jim Judd was asked by Senator David Paul Smith about whether Canadian mosques were being monitored by CSIS, to which Judd replied that he was unaware of any such policy. Assistant Director Neufeld then interjected, and confirmed that CSIS was indeed monitoring Canadian mosques, which it suspected of recruiting and funding terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ward Elcock
Ward P.D. Elcock (born August 1947) is a Canadian civil servant who served as the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1994 until May 2004. He remains the only Director to have ever served out his entire tenure. He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007. He was born in 1947 in Victoria, British Columbia to Commodore F. Dudley Elcock and Mary Grace Pitfield and is the oldest of four children (Hew, Julia and Mark (deceased)). He is the grandson of deceased Canadian financier Ward C. Pitfield and Grace Pitfield (née MacDougall). He is the nephew of former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, the retired Senator Michael Pitfield, and retired financier Ward C. Pitfield, Jr. A Bachelor's graduate in Political Science from Carleton University, Elcock received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Elcock served as the ''Security & Intelligence'' Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council Office for five years, and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ray Protti
Raymond Protti is a University of Alberta graduate with a BA and MA in economics. Protti was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) from 1992 through 1994. He previously held positions as President and CEO of the Canadian Bankers Association, and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food The minister of agriculture and agri-food () is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada, who is responsible for overseeing several organizations including Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian Dairy Commission, Farm Credit C ... and of Labour Canada. References Living people Directors of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian federal deputy ministers {{Canada-gov-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Reid Morden
John Reid Morden (June 17, 1941 – May 7, 2024) was a Canadian civil servant who was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1988 to 1992. From 1991 to 1994, Morden served as deputy minister of foreign affairs. Early life and education Morden was born on June 17, 1941, in Hamilton, Ontario. As a child, he moved to Montreal, Quebec before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Morden graduated from Dalhousie University in 1963 with a bachelor of laws. He later received an honorary doctorate of law from Dalhousie. Career Morden started his career with the Canadian Department of External Affairs. His first posting was in Pakistan. From 1991 to 1994, Morden served as deputy minister of foreign affairs. Morden was named director of CSIS in 1988 and served in that capacity for four years. While there, he oversaw the destruction of security files for John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau on January 30, 1989. Later he caused a stir by d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Countering Foreign Interference Act
The ''Countering Foreign Interference Act'' (), commonly known as Bill C-70, is an Act of the Parliament of Canada with the objective of countering foreign interference in Canadian democratic processes. The legislation consists of four parts, with the first three parts consisting of amendments to the ''Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act'', the newly renamed ''Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act'' plus the Criminal Code (Canada), ''Criminal Code'', and the ''Canada Evidence Act'', respectively. The fourth part enacts the ''Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act'', which establishes a public registry of foreign agents. The Act was introduced by 29th Canadian Ministry, Justin Trudeau's government and came in the wake of official probes into Chinese government interference in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections, Chinese interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and the high degree of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Said Khadr (; born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian who, at the age of 15, was detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for ten years, during which he pleaded guilty to the murder of U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer and other charges. He later appealed his conviction, claiming that he falsely pleaded guilty so that he could return to Canada where he remained in custody for three additional years. Khadr sued the Canadian government for infringing his rights under the '' Charter of Rights and Freedoms''; this lawsuit was settled in 2017 with a million payment and an apology by the federal government. Born in Canada, Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father, who was affiliated with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. On July 27, 2002, at age 15, Khadr was severely wounded during fighting between U.S. soldiers and Taliban fighters in the village of Ayub Kheyl; Khadr is alleged to have thrown the grenade that killed Speer. After he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
