Document Purpose: to provide direction for obtaining a foreign arrangement with a foreign government, institution, or international organization for the purpose of enabling CSIS to carry out mandated activities under the CSIS Act.
Document Purpose: Policy deals with the assistance provided by the Service, pursuant to sections 16 and 21 of the CSIS Act, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs or Minister of National Defence in the collection of foreign intelligence within Canada…
To state the principles and directives governing the approval process for an initial request, renewal, upgrade, downgrade or a termination of a targeting level pursuant to the CSIS Act. Targets can be persons, groups or organizations, and issues or…
Document Purpose: Memo to get the Minister’s approval for the new Ministerial Directive which includes guidelines for managing CSIS’s foreign liaison arrangements (Dec. 2001). Prior to the MD guidelines, CSIS needed to consult with DFAIT/officially…
CSIS internal memo and powerpoint deck describing its view of the legal issues surrounding the process of using intelligence for evidential purposes in court proceedings.
This document describes the structure of the internal CSIS committee charged with making decisions on whether to share information with foreign entities where there is a risk of torture or maltreatment. Also included is a 2011 letter from the…
Document Purpose: Provides questions to consider for use of information that could be derived through mistreatment or torture (how to ensure this is not the case) such as:
Has the country signed and ratified the Convention against Torture and Other…