A Rare Good News Day for Canada’s Protectors

Published on December 13, 2023

Commentary The world of espionage is indeed a murky one. Popular images usually involve a figure in a trench coat and a low-slung hat lurking on a street corner on a misty evening either following someone or waiting to meet a source to gather information to save the world.  The real world of subterfuge is a little different—sorry fans of James Bond!—although we have on occasion saved the world from various forms of evil. Those of us who toiled in secret occupations did our best to collect, process, analyze, and confirm information obtained from a variety of sensitive sources to help our political masters make better decisions and policies (that those same masters ignored us, as was painfully shown in Canada when it came to solid intelligence on Chinese interference in our 2019 and 2021 elections, is not our fault: we are just the messengers –please don’t shoot us!)....