The Auditor General Reports on National Security in Canada. It's long - grab a coffee. You'll be hearing brief versions of her criticisms via mainstream media soon enough (if not already).
Update
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous writes:
More important to keep Canadians in the dark than protect them. Top experienced investigators got canned when they finally went public because nothing was done. They did it for the public good [...] whistleblowers who were trying to protect Canadians and lost their careers.
How many have been hired with that $8 billion in security?The Auditor General highlighted in the 2001 report that, "A weak immigration service is putting Canada in danger because it isn't weeding out applicants presenting criminal, security, or health risks". Last year, a high-ranking Canadian diplomat based in China left his post suddenly after he was suspected of accepting bribes to help Chinese nationals enter Canada illegally. He is thought to have made well over $1 million before he bolted a few days before his posting expired.
The government continues to play down the problems and serious security implications. It destroys and sees as a threat anyone who tells the truth. Both RCMP Corporal Read and I have experienced this. So too have two CSIS officers whose careers were also destroyed working on the Sidewinder project, which examined Chinese espionage activities in Canada in alliance with the triads....
Type "Sidewinder" into the Insightmag search engine.
Great. I'm sure this will be reported on
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
which is a totally legitimate link to that
web page. Thank you Audoitor General for
providing me the alibi :-)
Ooops correction, I meant Attorney General.
Different story. :-)
Perhaps related to Canadian immigration policies: Any comment on the news that Canadians will be required to show passports to enter the USA, beginning Jan 1, 2006?
Consider the impact on the Canadian tourist industry, to start with.
This site has a bunch af articles related to this...
http://www.primetimecrime.com/Articles/RobertRead/Robertreadasiantriads.htm