The media revealed that Canada plans to expand its intelligence gathering capabilities overseas.
Xinhua News Agency, Ottawa, Nov. 6 (Reporter Lin Wei) According to a report in Canada's Globe and Mail on the 6th, the Canadian federal government plans to give the Canadian National Security Intelligence Service greater overseas intelligence work powers, and may eventually establish an independent foreign intelligence agency similar to the US Central Intelligence Agency or MI6.
In an interview with "Globe and Mail", Rochon said that the Carney government was "actively looking at how to improve the country's foreign intelligence gathering capabilities", among other things due to concerns about Canada's over-reliance on American intelligence.
According to the Canadian federal budget announced on the 5th, an additional allocation of 6 billion Canadian dollars (about 4.25 billion US dollars) will be allocated to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service over the next 10 years, part of which will be used for foreign intelligence gathering. The agency's current annual budget is about one billion Canadian dollars (about $710 million).