Jake Norris breaks down the top Canadian national security stories from the past two weeks.
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Jake Norris rounds up the top Canadian National Security stories from the first half of October.
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Our Bi-Weekly News Roundups are back! Every two weeks NPSIA MA Student Calum Elliot and MA/JD student Jake Norris break down the most important stories in Canadian national security.
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Canada’s failure to win a seat in the United Nations Security Council has provoked a debate over Canada’s place in the world. It was seen as a personal failure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who when elected famously declared that “Canada is back!” But it has raised deeper questions regarding the reasons for the failure, what Canada’s role in the world should be, and indeed what it once was—should we want to be “back?” And what does that mean anyway?
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This week, Hussein Borhot was charged with terrorism offences for allegedly travelling to Syria in 2013. He has been charged with four offences, with the kidnapping offence being a first in Canadian history. These charges demonstrate that the RCMP is willing and able to press forward with charges based on events that largely transpired overseas and even after nearly a decade has elapsed. Foreign fighters should take note.
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In the second post in our student series, JD/MA student Gabriella Colavecchio unpacks the implications of an impending constitutional challenge to the use of secret evidence to deny a Canadian with alleged connections to Al Shabaab a passport under the Canadian Passport Order and the Prevention of Terrorist Travel Act.
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In the first in a series of posts by graduate students from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Graeme Hamilton explores the role of CSE in countering online disinformation and defending Canadians from opportunistic cyber-threat actors.
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Something new from guest contributor Tyler Wentzell, author of the new book Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War. In this post, Tyler compares the original Canadian foreign fighters to the recent phenomenon of Canadians travelling abroad to join or support ISIS, and the government’s response to those left behind when the war was over.
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Although many of the questions coming out of the COVID-19 crisis seem new, there is a long-standing literature on pandemics which have discussed issues such as lessons learned, readiness, the role of international institutions and the ethics of surveillance for decades. Some scholars, like Steve Saideman have raised concern that mainstream International Relations has ignored pandemics. This is not to make a comment on that, but to point out to some of what is out there on the margins of the IR/national security discipline.
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