Challenges confronting Canada in Maritime Security: An Interview with Rear Admiral Roger Girouard (Canadian Forces, Ret'd)

摘要

Canada's National Security infrastructure has had to adjust to new realities in a post 9/11 world. Two high profile cases are demanding conflicting policies in managing the nation's security. The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182, which exploded in mid-air on 23 June 1985, shows that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was incompetent in its dealings with Canada's law enforcement agency, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), in apprehending suspicious persons.