Peter Mansbridge Dept: In Mr. Fadden, now 58, CSIS would be getting a career civil servant with more than three decades of experience, including two terms as deputy minister in key portfolios Citizenship and Immigration, and Natural Resources . Neither was he a novice in the sensitive arena of intelligence, having served for two years as counsel and security and intelligence co-ordinator in the Privy Council Office. His term there included the period after 9/11 and kept him in close touch with CSIS officials, according to Globe And Mail. In that sense, says Prof. Wark, an associate of the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies , Mr. Fadden’s remarks Tuesday to the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge – that some provincial cabinet ministers and other public servants were “under at least the general influence of a foreign government” – seemed completely out of character and although the shoes of his retiring predecessor, Jim Judd, were considered sizable, CSIS staffers – and the universe of watchers that closely monitors the domestic spy agency – were pleased at the government’s choice. In short, said security expert Wesley Wark , Mr. Fadden was precisely the sort of leader the agency needed – one of Ottawa’s most senior mandarins, “very seasoned, measured, calm, intelligent. He knew the rules of the game and the importance to the Harper government of centralized control of political messages.” As
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