The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is supposed to retain only information that is “strictly necessary” to do its job, and the spy agency is now facing questions about whether it collected and hung on to material about groups or people who posed no real threat.
During one hearing, a CSIS official whose identity is confidential told the committee that information volunteered by energy companies was put in a spy service database. The watchdog concluded CSIS collected some information about peaceful anti-petroleum groups, but only incidentally in the process of investigating legitimate threats to projects such as oil pipelines.
Still, the review committee urged CSIS to ensure it was keeping only “strictly necessary” information, as spelled out in the law governing the spy service.
That is part of their job!! Doesn’t matter if you are Canadian or foreign!
Boo fawk'n hoo... I'm glad CSIS did this, looking for people, who AREN'T even Canadian, looking for environmental Terrorists. Boo fawk'n hoo... How many hard working Canadians lost their jobs in the Oil industry because of you fawkes... Zero sympathy...
Canada is gone
Nope.
Foreign-funded extremists, breaking all sort of laws and threatening violence? I don't know about CSIS, but the RCMP definitely should have. I am suspecting the foreign component is what got CSIS involved.
Who is funding you lady? Canada first, is what you should be about!!
He looks upset
Jeez, when you break the law, expect attention. This is ridiculous.
I believe that monitoring civil disobedience is part of their mandate. They were just doing their job. Too bad you can't see it that way...
Of course they are upset. These freeloaders get all their money from US oil companies keeping Canadian oil land locked. Efn tree huggers anyway. Wonder what car they drive to and from these protests?
When the executive director of posts stuff like this, and you want CSIS to look the other way? Give me a break. When your posting stuff like this to promote civil disobedience, and how major this project is, you deserve to to be looked into.
Bleeding hearts alleging the eco terrorists had their rights violated 🤦♂️. What about our rights to ship products and have fair market access! Wish they would all go protest in the Kingdom; problem solved.
Too fucking bad. Dirty USA money and ecoterrorists. No sympathy at all.
Is it possible that CSIS would have asked one of its fellow 5 Eyes intelligence agencies to do the spying for them? It would give CSIS plausible deniability - and is probably done more than we’d like to think. bcpoli TMX climatechange pipeline
Lol
Every floorhand motorhand derrickhand driller & rigmanager would disagree with you. We populate the real country while you city-folk disintegrate our rights to pro-create in your rainbow phantasy land. It’s time to nuke the cities!
To bad. So us were you money was coming from. US big oil
CSIS did their job, end of story.
I have no problem with CSIS they vet me every day, 24/7 / 365. how about you?
more like the bc civil liberties went too far
CSIS......'nuff said.
Spiked trees, sabotaged equipment, illegal obstruction, violent protests. Worthy of monitoring.
CSIS stepped over the line. Domestic terrorism is the jurisdiction of the RCMP
PlagueofProgs Enviro-terrorism is a thing...
It's about time RCMP did something constructive with the protestors gross junkies blocking public roads makes thrm all look bad
Glad to see that, if true, at least some people appear to be doing their job to protect our country from its enemies within.