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One of the longest debates in the history of Canada national security remains unresolved. Does Canada need a foreign intelligence service, a Canadian version of the CIA, MI6 or Australia’s ASIS? We will examine the need against the context of new national and global security threats and consider what form a Canadian FIS could take. […]

Space is increasingly recognized as a vital domain for global and national security. We depend on space assets for earth observation, for intelligence gathering, for military communications, for civil telecommunications and for navigational services. The fact that space is critical infrastructure forces us to ask about threats and our ability to secure space assets. This

The last Canadian national security strategy was published over 20 years ago. We now live in a vastly different geopolitical world, a world transformed by diverse and fast changing threats. The government has pledged to write and publish a new national security strategy. We will examine what it should look like, the objectives it might

Canada’s new defence policy, issued in April 2024, promises to reorient Canada defence to protect Canada’s Arctic and to contribute to NATO collective security. We will examine the foundations of the new policy, the key promises made, the threat environment it responds to, and the challenges ahead. This masterclass is offered as part of the