🇨🇦 Top-secret state, bargain-bin hiring

Canada’s spy agency needs 12 to 18 months to vet recruits, yet now wants to cut corners, outsource screening and relax language requirements to fix its own staffing mess. That would be the same federal apparatus that spent the Trudeau years lecturing citizens about disinformation while failing to secure basic institutions from espionage and foreign interference. Internal emails confirm CSIS is still 85 per cent internal hires and only 15 per cent external, so naturally the answer from Ottawa is more consultants, shorter training and bureaucratic reshuffling.

This is what late-stage managerial Canada looks like: an intelligence service drowning in process while the country absorbs record migration, rising foreign influence and collapsing trust in public institutions. Instead of rebuilding a serious national-security culture rooted in competence, loyalty and sovereignty, they are tinkering with HR mechanics like a DEI-sodden Crown corporation. If your security state cannot hire fast, screen properly or keep standards high, it is not protecting the country. It is performing government while Canada gets softer and more penetrable by the year.

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