Canada’s ‘untouchable’ spies | Islamophobia

Canada’s spy service is a “rat hole”. That blunt, malicious description of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was not proffered by an invective-hurling anarchist, but by Michel Simard, a 34-year veteran police and intelligence officer in 2000.  At the time, I was the so-called “national security reporter” for a Canadian newspaper – a stock term I loathe since it implies that