The media should play a key role in a democracy overseeing national security agencies, but NOT in this case. Bad journalism, playing on conspiracy theories and misinformation that applies to other countries and eras but not Canada today (short thread):
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-environmental groups were not "prime targets"; there is no evidence of that. They are overstretched and deal with far, far more important issues. There is *no* evidnce CSIS was "vigorously spying" on them
-"if you're taking on the established order, expect CSIS to show up" - this is absolute non-sense. You have serious ideoligical blinders if you believe this. There is no evidence of this, not in Canada in 2019.
-to write that CSIS "hears politicians loud and clear" and then targets its investigations shows a profound misunderstanding of how this works.
-The only valid part in the article: that lack of transparency in Ottawa is a problem.
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