The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) will testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry in the coming weeks that his agency did not consider the anti-COVID-19 restrictions’ protests of last winter a national security threat under the legislation that established the agency, according to a summary of his interview conducted earlier with the Public Order Emergency Commission.
“At no point did the Service assess that the protests in Ottawa or elsewhere [those referred to as the ‘Freedom Convoy’ and related protests and blockades in January-February 2022] constituted a threat to the security of Canada as defined by section 2 of the CSIS Act, and that CSIS cannot investigate activity constituting lawful protest,” says CSIS Director David Vigneault’s interview summary….