One of Canada’s former top spies says that insider threats are one of the country’s biggest national security threats following three high-profile incidents.
“An insider threat, whether it’s a leaker or a spy — a spy from the inside — is unquestionably the most serious threat to national security,” former CSIS executive manager Dan Stanton told Mercedes Stephenson on The West Block.
“These are individuals that progress from low-risk to potential to do some leakage to becoming a high-risk where they actually act on these impulses and these plans. And it’s a very serious threat.”
But the good news is many of Canada’s internal threats are multicultural.
