🇨🇦 Canada is strengthening its intelligence to be less dependent on allies.
🖥 The government proposes to allocate an additional 6 billion Canadian dollars to the Canadian security and intelligence service CSIS for ten years. Funding will begin in fiscal year 2027-2028, after which additional annual expenditures will total $579.5 million.
ℹ️ In its 2025 report, CSIS directly names the undermining of Canadian support for Ukraine as a target of Russian influence operations. The Russians and their mediators are fomenting public conflicts, spreading misinformation and discrediting the government's position on Ukraine. At the same time, they hide the connections with Moscow so that the Kremlin theses are disseminated on behalf of foreigners and organizations.
🔎 The service also identifies Russian spies and their intermediaries and together with partners helps to disrupt their activities in Europe. According to CSIS, espionage, sabotage and influence operations are part of Russia's response to Western aid to Ukraine.
📌 For Ukraine, this strengthening of work could make it difficult for Russia to try to turn Canadian society against helping us. It is also a confrontation with Russian agents in partner countries. But the government did not reveal how much new money would be directed specifically to Russia.
👀 Canada also wants to be less dependent on foreign intelligence partners. In October's National Security Strategy, the government envisioned the development of its own information collection and analysis and the expansion of intelligence cooperation. In this budget announcement there are no new agreements on the transfer of intelligence to Ukraine.
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