Canada may need its own foreign spy service: watchdog

Thank you, Captain obvious.

Blah, this issue pops up it seems every few years to fill papers. Don't see it happening anytime soon.

We already have one, it's called the Communications Security Establishment, and they have spied on plenty of other foreign nations electronically (SIGINT).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicat ... ent_Canada

Weel, at least they did until the mid-90s, when an ex-employee wrote a scathing tell-all called Spyworld.

http://www.amazon.ca/Spyworld-Mike-Fros ... 558&sr=8-1

However, if we want operatives ala the CIA and KGB, our multi-cultural society provides us with potentially operatives for just about every nation on the planet (after very thorough screening of course).

What Canada needs is to make it known or well known to other Canadians. I mean besides military buffs and the like, how much of the common folk know about CSIS, JTF2 and anything else the Canadian government likes to keep secret and hush hush?

I dunno, whenever I hear about CSIS all I can think of is 2 guys hiding behind a tree saying, "Uh oh, I think he CSIS".

I think of the CSIS guys following Rayat into the woods, hearing an explosion but not following it up.