🇨🇦 CSIS gets legal immunity, then forgets the legal part

Ottawa literally gave CSIS a carveout to commit certain offences, and even then the agency may have blown past the rules. The watchdog found employees may have committed offences without proper designation, directed others without required authorization, and sometimes could not even document why the offence was reasonable or proportional, as reported. This is the federal state in one tidy package: extraordinary powers first, paperwork maybe later.

And spare us the pious transparency routine from director Daniel Rogers and the usual accountability slogans. Under the Trudeau-era security culture, the governing class is obsessed with monitoring citizens, expanding lawful access, and policing speech, yet somehow cannot manage basic compliance inside its own intelligence service. The same elite that lectures Canadians about trust, democracy, and institutional integrity keeps building a state that demands more power while proving it deserves less. A sovereign country needs competent security services under real control, not a bureaucratic permission slip for lawbreaking dressed up as oversight.

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