Opinion: David Johnston says whoever leaked information about Chinese interference in Canadian politics is guilty of a “breach of duty.” The clear implication is they should be tracked down and punished.
no one has any idea if they actually get read
There’s no system for flagging an important report to key people, or for making sure someone reads it and decides whether anything should be done. So it seems quite possible that intelligence on, say, attempts by foreign agents to influence an election, might well disappear into that big binder and never be seen again.
It turns out it was sent through a “Top Secret Network email” and neither the minister nor his most senior aide had access to that. That’s the absurd, dysfunctional system that Canada’s security officials have been struggling with, and the government has allowed to persist for years. Who knows what other information has disappeared in this maze? Who knows what other crises are ticking away in the background and what other intelligence ministers simply don’t know about? Only a government and a country that doesn’t take national security seriously would tolerate such a situation for so long.
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