Former RCMP Agent Accused of Espionage to Be First Tried Under Security of Information Act

Cameron Ortis, who was a senior intelligence official at the RCMP, leaves the courthouse in Ottawa on October 22, 2019. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

The upcoming trial of a former RCMP intelligence director general accused of leaking top-secret information will be the first time a Canadian appears in court on charges brought under the Security of Information Act (SOIA).

Cameron Jay Ortis, the former director general of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Coordination Centre, was arrested in September 2019 for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity or terrorist group.