Rob Stewart, former deputy minister of Public Safety, appears as a witness at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.
A Canadian Security Intelligence Service warrant application that lingered in then-Public Safety minister Bill Blair's office for 54 days included a list of people whose communications were at risk of being intercepted if they communicated with the target of the warrant, the foreign interference inquiry was told Tuesday.
"Mr. Stewart surmised that questions would probably have been asked about certain processes related to the execution of the warrant."RCMP official won't say whether Chinese 'police stations' are still operating in Canada Earlier in the inquiry, CSIS officials testified that it took weeks — much longer than is usual — for Blair to sign the warrant application once it was sent to Zita Astravas, his then-chief of staff. Blair has testified that he signed the application on the day he first saw it.
They told the inquiry that if Blair was in Toronto and something had to be dealt with quickly, it could be printed out at the CSIS office in Toronto and a CSIS official would bring it to the minister to read or sign.
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