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A Podcast Called INTREPID

Stephanie Carvin and Craig Forcese

In "A podcast Called INTREPID", Stephanie Carvin (NPSIA, Carleton University) and Craig Forcese (Faculty of Law, uOttawa) discuss and debate issues in Canadian national security law and policy, sometimes ripped from the headlines, and in other instances, just because they seem interesting.

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Ep 100 Her Majesty in Right of Pod -- Pt 1 No One...

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2019/09/27

As promised, the crew at INTREPID is starting a few new “features” this season — the first is a sit-down with Philippe Lagasse, Crown scholar extraordinaire, to discuss the public law architecture of modern Canada (within which all national security law and practice — and all other exercises of governmental power — is entrenched). In this inaugural episode we march through several of the most important principles that continue to animate our system of law and government (rule of law, parliamentary

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Ep 99 Double Agent Man -- Figuring out the RCMP...

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2019/09/16

The INTREPID team assembles: Stephanie hosts as Jessica Davis, Leah West and Michael Nesbitt join her for a discussion about the breaking news that a top RCMP intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, was arrested on September 13 and charged with violating the Security of Information Act (SOIA). Jess describes the kinds of information someone like Ortis would have access to and why it would be so dangerous if he committed the crimes of which he is accused. Leah and Mike discuss the rarely used SOIA and

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Ep 98.5 A Brave New Format

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2019/09/12

The INTREPID Team is BACK for 2019-2020! This is officially Season 3, and Craig and Stephanie provide a quick briefing about our plans for the podcast and a bunch of new themes for the show. This includes our “national security in the news” round-ups, national security law and policy briefs, our “podsite” series, foreign affairs deep-dives and giving Philippe Lagassé a microphone and the ability to talk about the Westminster system and Crown powers in a new special project. But first, we need to

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Ep 98 Iran So Far Away

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2019/07/30

For the last official podcast of Season 2, Stephanie plays the role of interviewer to Craig and regular guest (and Intrepid Blog founder) Thomas Juneau for a discussion about Iran. This is part of our occasional series on Canadian foreign policy in relation to particular states. In this episode we ask: Why did Canada split with Iran and why did the Trudeau government fail to re-open relations despite its 2015 election promise? What are the legalities of the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act

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Ep 97 An INTREPID Podsight -- Tricia Geddes ADP CSIS

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2019/07/23

Stephanie and Craig are very pleased to welcome to the show (as our last “podsight” guest of Season 2) Tricia Geddes, Assistant Director Policy at CSIS. Tricia talks about her career in the security & intelligence community and her present role as assistant director policy — and all that entails at CSIS. She looks back on lessons-learned from the policy development phase for bill C-59, and looks forward to how policy development might work in the future. She also discusses transparency and

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Ep 96 Parsing Dissent

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2019/07/20

With three episodes left in season 2, Stephanie and Craig return with their last news roundup before breaking for August. Most of bill C-59 came into force this week (and the CSE Act will come into force on August 1). This podcast has the details of the provisions now in force. And CSIS was in the news twice this month: once in relation to a BC Civil Liberties Association complaint about alleged “spying” by CSIS implicating environmentalists; and more recently after the federal Conservative Party

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Ep 95 Naming, Shaming and Seizing Assets

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2019/07/04

Stephanie and Craig are back to discuss the recent listing as a terrorist group of two (related) right-wing extremist groups — the first time this has happened in Canada. They walk through how listing works in the Criminal Code and the implications of listing. They then focus on the government’s newly announced national security transparency advisory group, complementing its national security transparency principles. They end with an update on some reporting on electoral interference in Canada

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Ep 94 Eastern Approaches -- Saudi Arabia

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2019/06/28

Stephanie sat down with Thomas Juneau, A Blog Called INTREPID founding editor and uOttawa professor. They discussed recent developments in the Middle East, with a focus on Saudi Arabia and Canadian foreign policy issues. This is one in an occasional series we are doing on regional national security and international relations issues, looked at through the prism of Canadian interests.

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Ep 93 I'm Now More than a Bill on Parliament Hill

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2019/06/22

I'm more than a bill. Yes, I'm no longer only a bill. And I'm no longer sitting here on Parliament Hill. Well, it's been a long, long journey To the capital city.It's been a long, long wait While I was sitting in committee, But I’m now law this day. This is our Bill C-59 episode ultimate issue, recorded an hour after Bill C-59 received royal assent, and became a statute! We offer some wrap up observations about that legislative process. And then we talk about the other development Friday: the

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Ep 92 An INTREPID Podsight -- Ralph Goodale, Minister...

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2019/06/10

Stephanie and Craig are honoured to welcome to the show Ralph Goodale, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. In this “podsight”, we discuss with the Minister the challenges of heading such a busy and complex portfolio. We then launch into a discussion of bill C-59 and its progress through Parliament, before “future-casting” on important public policy issues in the Public Safety portfolio. These include: new legislation on cybersecurity standards in select critical infrastructure

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Ep 91 May the Coming Into Force Be With You

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2019/06/07

Stephanie and Craig are back, albeit jet-lagged. We jump into a few matters we’ve been following. First, some new information on security background checks for judges — a follow up on our earlier discussion on the security clearance process. Second, a look at discussions over the last few days about charging Daesh fighters with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Third, we loop back to bill C-59 to update listeners on developments. To this end, we walk through the amendments proposed by the

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Ep 90 Future-Casting the Next Parliament's Priorities...

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2019/05/18

Stephanie and Craig sat down with Michael Nesbitt, Leah West and Jess Davis (all founding editors of “A Blog Called INTREPID) while all were at the University of Toronto for an anti-terrorism conference. Recorded in the wood-paneled drawing room of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (complete with echo and people arriving for work treading on squeaky floors), our group offers up their thoughts on the top priorities in national security law and policy reform for the next year, after the federal

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Ep 89 A Surplus of Headlines

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2019/05/07

Stephanie and Craig pause on the guest front, and play catch up on news in the Canadian national security space. Among the topics: national security in the 2019 federal budget; issues arising in the senate proceedings on bill C-59 (including the terrorism speech crime; no fly list appeals and special advocates); recent reporting on “dangerous” Canadians; the now second set of amendments to the 2018 terror threat to Canada report; and a peculiar cyber crime investigation involving both the RCMP and

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Ep 88 Building Bridges Between Silos -- Bill C-59 and...

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2019/04/30

Stephanie and Craig are very pleased to welcome to the show Sophie Beecher, Director, Intelligence Policy, National Security Policy Directorate, Public Safety Canada. Sophie walks us through the Security of Canada Information Sharing Sharing Act (SCISA). SCISA was amongst the most controversial features of bill C-51 (2015), and in its current form has attracted criticism from civil society groups, academics and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. And yet, information-sharing on national security

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Ep 87 A Close Up with the National Security and...

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2019/04/19

This is the INTREPID deep-dive on the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which last week issued its first (very substantive) annual report. Stephanie and Craig are honoured to welcome to INTREPID the NSICoP’s Chair, David McGuinty, and its Executive Director, Rennie Marcoux. We talk about how NSICoP works and the way it has evolved over its first two years, how it conducts its reviews, highlights of the two recent reviews into the government setting of intelligence

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Ep 86 Catching up with the News Cycling Peloton

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2019/04/16

Craig and Stephanie interrupt their series of guest interviews to update listeners on news in the national security law and policy world. In this episode, they discuss their reaction to the first ever annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICoP), and summarize some of the key takeaways; circle back to the CSE threats to democratic processes update; address various social media speech and regulation issues that have been in the news lately; briefly

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Ep 85 An INTREPID Podsight -- Stephane Perrault Chief...

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2019/04/13

Stephanie and Craig were honoured to sit down with Stéphane Perrault, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, to discuss elections security and the workings of Elections Canada in preparing for the 2019 election. We covered the role of the Chief Electoral Officer, how Elections Canada incorporates cyber- and election security into its task of delivering an election, the changes to Canada’s elections laws in bill C-76 as they relate to foreign influence and the role of social media in elections, the new

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Ep 84 An INTREPID Podcast Special Part 3 -- Foreign...

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2019/04/11

Stephanie and Craig are very pleased to welcome Michael King to the show, for our oft-promised third episode in our study of foreign terrorist fighters. Our purpose in this series is to canvass the range of possible legal and policy responses to foreign fighter returnees. In episode 73 we walked through the facts on the ground in this area, with a focus on Canadians who affiliated with Daesh. In episode 74 we considered the international law issues around their detention in Syria by the Syrian

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Ep 83 The INTREPID Crib Notes on Information Warfare...

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2019/04/06

In the last week of March, just in time for exam season, Stephanie sat down in Ottawa with James Pamment, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University and a senior adviser to the Hybrid COE in Helsinki. James leads a small research team that provides training, scenario exercises, process and policy support to governments and international organizations in protection from election interference, disinformation and hybrid influence techniques. In this

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Ep 82 An INTREPID Podsight -- Mr Justice Richard...

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2019/03/29

Stephanie and Craig are honoured to welcome to the show Mr Justice Richard Mosley of the Federal Court. We spend a lot of time on INTREPID talking about the national security jurisprudence of the Federal Court. This was our opportunity to sit down with one of the most experienced and respected Federal Court “designated judges” (who hear security cases) to talk about what it is like to be a judge in the national security space. We start with a brief overview of Justice Mosley’s distinguished career,

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