"A number of challenges face Canada's security community: [...] 
foreign-gathered intelligence -- we may need to come to grips 
with some of the less palatable practices of foreign 
intelligence agencies"
- speech of Ward Elcock at the CIAJ Conference, 25-26 March 2002
  as summarized in a CIAJ document
  http://www.rcmp-learning.org/download/ciaj_march2002.pdf  

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"National Post: Is there a need for our domestic spy agency to 
have a foreign intelligence capacity?
John Manley: We don't have a dedicated foreign intelligence 
agency -- something that would be worth having. I think we need 
to increase our ability. I think we can do it within the 
existing framework. CSIS does have some foreign capacity..."
- Robert Fife, 'I don't think I'm being negative'
  National Post, 30 April 2003
  http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id=65AF2ECE-DE
DF-4DAA-8E61-A8E106FA70BF

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"Canadian Alliance critic Kevin Sorenson said the government is 
moving at "a snail's pace" in designating terrorist groups.  
[...] Mr. Sorenson also called for expanding the powers of CSIS 
so that it could more effectively conduct covert operations 
abroad."
- Jeff Sallot, 'Islamic extremists top Canadian terror threat, 
Easter says'
  The Globe and Mail, 5 June 2003
  http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030605.wterr
0605/BNStory/National/