• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    That feels kind of like a half-truth/obsfucation from lapresse.

    While we may indeed lack a dedicated foreign intelligence service (I don’t know…maybe they’re just really really good at their job.) I do know that CSIS rolls a lot of those duties into their own purview. Whether that reaches the level of secret agent spy shit, who knows. But it’s not like they’re not out there figuring out threats to Canada.

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      10 days ago

      I thought so too, but from what I understand CSIS doesn’t do boots on the ground type work, and mainly just gathers data.

      Sounds more the case that while we do HAVE an intelligence service, they are underfunded and restricted in their abilities do do as much as they may need to.

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        10 days ago

        That is absolutely not true. You can ask any numbers of left wing and indigenous organizers who’ve received CSIS visits at their homes.

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          10 days ago

          Interesting. I meant “boots on the ground” overseas in the context of foreign intelligence as per the article.

          Doesn’t surprise me that of course they have to stick their noses into other peoples business at the bequest of the conservatives.