The head of Canada’s intelligence agency spent much of 2023 where spies don’t like to be — in the spotlight, on the back foot.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director David Vigneault spent the first half of the year fielding questions about whether CSIS responded properly to Chinese election interference. He’s ending the year facing questions about whether security services could have prevented the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Sikh activist India is accused of killing outside a temple in Surrey, B.C.
These questions cut directly to CSIS’s reason for existing. So is Canada’s leading intelligence agency still capable of keeping up with a
