• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    6 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.

    • Jay@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

      I thought so too, but from what I understand CSIS doesn’t do boots on the ground type work (overseas), and mainly just gathers data. (Wildbus’s comment below claims they do still harass canadians here at home though)

      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.