Judge Denies CSIS Request to Collect Foreign Intelligence

Judge Denies CSIS Request to Collect Foreign Intelligence
A sign for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service building is shown in Ottawa in this file photo. Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—A court has put the brakes on a Canadian Security Intelligence Service request to collect foreign information, ruling a proposed technique would stray beyond the spy service’s legal mandate.

The service was seeking court warrants so it could gather intelligence in other countries, from a location inside Canada, to at the request of an unnamed federal minister.