Testimonies at Emergencies Act Inquiry Show Our Leadership Needs to Enroll in Intelligence 101

A sign for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service building in Ottawa, in a file photo. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

Commentary

Look, I get it. The intelligence world is a murky one. All that secrecy and “need to know” stuff gets in the way of anyone having a full understanding of what these agencies do. Hollywood doesn’t help (hint: James Bond is a FICTIONAL character!) Nor does the tired old line, “I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.”