Canadian Security Intelligence: Security Intelligence Service

Congressional Subcommittee Dept: Well before 9/11, I testified before a congressional subcommittee concerned about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's 1998 warning that more terror groups were in Canada than in any other country, except perhaps the U.S. Imagine American officials' discomfort with today's Canadian security problems. CSIS director Richard Fadden warned of illicit foreign-influence operations in Canada. One or two provincial cabinets could be penetrated, he said, as might local governments. Yet MPs shy away from asking whether Canada's politicobureaucratic system is infiltrated. The approaching tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks marks a critical point in Canada-United States relations. This milestone should remind us that allies' support and confidence are decisive to a country's survival and prosperity. In Canada's case, prosperity and public safety require access to U.S. borders and to American diplomatic, military and intelligence channels. This access depends on U.S. confidence in Canada as a security partner.Canadian-based Sikh extremists caused the world's biggest pre-9/11 aviation-terror disaster, the 1985 Air India bombing. Today, India's security officials privately regard Canada - not India - as a font of international Sikh extremism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.