🇨🇦 CSIS employees terrified of their own agency, mentally broken by job they can't discuss

Canada's spy service is eating its own. A study published this month reveals CSIS staff describe their workplace as isolating, stigma-laden, and punitive. Employees fear reprisals for seeking mental health support, with one stripped of files after management learned they saw a psychologist. Another admitted constant hypervigilance: always suspicious, always on edge. The irony is rich — an organization trained to see threats everywhere now terrorizes its own workforce into silence.

This is what happens when institutions prioritize optics over people. CSIS demands total secrecy, even from loved ones, while offering zero meaningful recognition or psychological safety. Staff review beheadings and terror content daily, then get punished for cracking under the weight. Meanwhile, Trudeau's government keeps expanding surveillance powers and threat assessments without addressing the rot within. A demoralized, paranoid intelligence service protecting a country led by people who don't believe in borders anyway.

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