Watchdog’s Relations With Spy Community ‘Particularly Strained’ Over Last Year

Watchdog’s Relations With Spy Community ‘Particularly Strained’ Over Last Year
Marie Deschamps, a former Supreme Court justice and author of an inquiry into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces, speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on April 30, 2015. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Newly released documents say the intelligence community’s relationship with its key watchdog has been particularly strained over the last year due to a “level of resistance” to scrutiny.

The assessment appears in briefing materials prepared for Canada’s top public servant in advance of a late January meeting with the chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency.