As parliamentary committees and government officials investigate alleged Chinese interference in Canada’s past two general elections, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) says Canadians should “worry more” about the country’s current state of national security and defence.
Richard Fadden, who served as CSIS director from 2009 to 2013 and was also Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security advisor from 2015 to 2016, recently penned a Globe and Mail column in which he expressed concern about the federal government’s response to a shifting geopolitical environment—which he said includes “the rise of an increasingly assertive China” and “Russia acting in total disregard of international law.”…