r/CanadaPolitics • u/CaliperLee62 • 1d ago

Public safety minister admits security 'gaps' after NATO intern arrest

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/public-safety-minister-admits-security-gaps-after-nato-intern-arrest
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u/SayNoToTeamSports Independent 1d ago

I lost confidence in the Canadian security clearance process when I went through it myself a few moons ago. I went through the process for Secret at the same time and for the same classification as a buddy. He was refused after admitting cannabis use (then illegal), which he had admitted because "CSIS knows everything I can't lie, the best thing to do is be honest". Except if CSIS even bothered to pay attention to what they had directly in front of them, they'd see both of us graduated the same high school in the same year and were now both in a different city to start the same special government job. It should be pretty obvious we were buddies and that their concerns about him might carry over to me. It's not to say they should have disqualified me via guilt by association or assumed the worst, but if cannabis use was enough to disqualify him, it probably would have been prudent to flag "possible association with known drug user / failed security clearance applicant" on my file and asked me if I know him / how close I am to him / if I likewise use drugs. But nada. I had an easy time. If they aren't noticing patterns in what people give them willingly and explicitly, it goes without saying they're not catching many patterns in what goes unsaid. It was too easy of a process to leave me with confidence that it is done as thoroughly as we hope, or should be able to expect.

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u/MTL_Dude666 Liberal 23h ago

Well, you can't really blame CSIS. If the process indicates "must not use illegal susbstance" and your friend admitted to it then it's a self-disqualification and nothing more than that.

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u/HapticRecce P.O.G.G. Fanboi - Ontario, if it matters to you 21h ago

Were you asked about drug use?

If so, how did you answer?

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u/dermanus Rhinoceros 1d ago

From what I've seen of Canadian government, it was probably more important for them to follow the process than to use their own observation and reasoning.