Ontario watchdog ‘intervening’ after solicitor general ignores transparency orders

The annual reports from Communications Security Establishment Canada make for unexpectedly good reading. In recent years, the intelligence and cybersecurity agency has intercepted foreign espionage efforts, extremist networks, cybercriminal crews, and sprawling disinformation campaigns. The newest edition recounts how, in 2024, its units shut down a ransomware threat aimed at a Canadian industrial sector in only forty-eight hours. The CSE patrols a vast digital turf, its most critical work largely invisible to the public. But as it prepares to turn eighty, the organization’s role has...