Laws hinder RCMP and CSIS, says Zaccardelli

posted on November 30, 2007 | in Category Canada | PermaLink

Source: CBC News
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Date: November 30, 2007


Former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli says laws governing the Mounties and Canada's spy agency are putting the security of Canadians at risk.

Zaccardelli says the law is forcing the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to work under a structure that limits the transfer of information from one organization to the other.

But he says in a day and age where terrorism is on Canada's doorstep, changes are needed in Canadian law to allow critical information to flow more quickly.

"We should have policy that says let us look at information together and make intelligent judgment together," he said during testimony Friday in Ottawa at the inquiry into the 1985 Air India disaster.

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