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In the briefing note, CSIS says that, in order to better monitor IMVE, it's seeking an update to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act. "CSIS works closely with its security and intelligence partners, including by sharing the necessary information with law enforcement to ensure public safety." "With that said, I would like to emphasize is that the definition of threats, as outlined in the CSIS Act, specifically excludes lawful protest and dissent," said Brandon Champagne. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)Ī spokesperson for CSIS said they cannot confirm or deny the specifics of its investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities. "It seems that the service was briefing downtown before this happened, so why did that intelligence not turn into better preparation and advice?"ĬSIS Director David Vigneault holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, July 16, 2020. That's the major difference I think between convoy and January 6," she said. "It seems fairly clear that our intelligence services did seem to understand what was coming. "CSIS continues to wrestle with the challenges of sharing classified intelligence to inform law enforcement action, while protecting against injurious disclosure," says the briefing note.Ĭarvin said the real question might be whether authorities failed to turn CSIS's warnings and advice into action. The 2021 briefing note flags one angle the inquiry and the committee might want to examine: ongoing gaps in intelligence-sharing between CSIS and the police. What the spy agency saw and passed on to police, and how police responded to that information, are likely to come in for close scrutiny through the recently announced public inquiry and special joint committee looking into the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy occupation. "I don't know about CSIS but was that a community problem we had here in Canada that some agencies recognized and some didn't, and was getting consistent advice? That would be something I'd be interested in knowing." Gaps in intelligence-sharing seems to be the contradictory and inconsistent advice," said Stephanie Carvin, a former federal government national security analyst who now teaches at Carleton University. "Where they seem to have fallen down in the U.S.
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The challenges raised in the briefing note have one national security expert questioning how seriously the intelligence community and law enforcement took the Freedom Convoy event before protesters opposed to vaccine mandates occupied downtown Ottawa for weeks in February. "The resulting worldview consists of a personalized narrative which centres on an extremist's willingness to incite, enable and/or mobilize to violence," says the CSIS website. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)ĬSIS defines IMVE as extremism motivated by "a range of grievances and ideas from across the traditional ideological spectrum." Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to American lawmakers, CSIS said there were "inconsistencies between and within intelligence products that led to a lack of consensus about the gravity of the threat posed on January 6."Ī trucker is pepper-sprayed while police enforce an injunction against protesters near Parliament Hill on Feb. Reacting to reports from the FBI and the U.S. The report also includes CSIS's observations on the event, which were meant to be shared with senior officials in the public safety, defence, immigration and justice departments. national strategy for countering domestic terrorism. Senate's report on the attack on Capitol Hill on Jan. The July 2021 briefing note includes summaries drafted by CSIS officials of the U.S.
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That July 2021 briefing note - obtained by CBC News through an access to information request - also says that as CSIS pursues the threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE) in Canada, it's dealing with many of the same challenges its U.S.
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6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill, says an internal Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) report.
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American intelligence agencies struggled with "inconsistencies" in their analysis and "a lack of consensus" on the nature of the threat in the weeks prior to the Jan.