A Podcast Called INTREPID

Stephanie Carvin and Craig Forcese•www.intrepidpodcast.com

In "A podcast Called INTREPID", Stephanie Carvin (NPSIA, Carleton University) and Craig Forcese (Faculty of Law, uOttawa) discuss and debate issues in Canadian national security law and policy, sometimes ripped from the headlines, and in other instances, just because they seem interesting.

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Ep 91 May the Coming Into Force Be With You

Stephanie and Craig are back, albeit jet-lagged. We jump into a few matters we’ve been following. First, some new information on security background checks for judges — a follow up on our earlier discussion on the security clearance process. Second, a look at discussions over the last few days about charging Daesh fighters with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Third, we loop back to bill C-59 to update listeners on developments. To this end, we walk through the amendments proposed by the ...

Jun 07, 2019•41 min

Ep 90 Future-Casting the Next Parliament's Priorities in Canadian National Security Law and Policy

Stephanie and Craig sat down with Michael Nesbitt, Leah West and Jess Davis (all founding editors of “A Blog Called INTREPID) while all were at the University of Toronto for an anti-terrorism conference. Recorded in the wood-paneled drawing room of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (complete with echo and people arriving for work treading on squeaky floors), our group offers up their thoughts on the top priorities in national security law and policy reform for the next year, after the fed...

May 18, 2019•31 min

Ep 89 A Surplus of Headlines

Stephanie and Craig pause on the guest front, and play catch up on news in the Canadian national security space. Among the topics: national security in the 2019 federal budget; issues arising in the senate proceedings on bill C-59 (including the terrorism speech crime; no fly list appeals and special advocates); recent reporting on “dangerous” Canadians; the now second set of amendments to the 2018 terror threat to Canada report; and a peculiar cyber crime investigation involving both the RCMP a...

May 07, 2019•45 min

Ep 88 Building Bridges Between Silos -- Bill C-59 and Information-Sharing

Stephanie and Craig are very pleased to welcome to the show Sophie Beecher, Director, Intelligence Policy, National Security Policy Directorate, Public Safety Canada. Sophie walks us through the Security of Canada Information Sharing Sharing Act (SCISA). SCISA was amongst the most controversial features of bill C-51 (2015), and in its current form has attracted criticism from civil society groups, academics and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. And yet, information-sharing on national security...

Apr 30, 2019•40 min

Ep 87 A Close Up with the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians

This is the INTREPID deep-dive on the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which last week issued its first (very substantive) annual report. Stephanie and Craig are honoured to welcome to INTREPID the NSICoP’s Chair, David McGuinty, and its Executive Director, Rennie Marcoux. We talk about how NSICoP works and the way it has evolved over its first two years, how it conducts its reviews, highlights of the two recent reviews into the government setting of intelligence...

Apr 19, 2019•49 min

Ep 86 Catching up with the News Cycling Peloton

Craig and Stephanie interrupt their series of guest interviews to update listeners on news in the national security law and policy world. In this episode, they discuss their reaction to the f irst ever annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICoP), and summarize some of the key takeaways; circle back to the CSE threats to democratic processes update ; address various social media speech and regulation issues that have been in the news lately; brie...

Apr 16, 2019•44 min

Ep 85 An INTREPID Podsight -- Stephane Perrault Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on Election Security

Stephanie and Craig were honoured to sit down with Stéphane Perrault, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, to discuss elections security and the workings of Elections Canada in preparing for the 2019 election. We covered the role of the Chief Electoral Officer, how Elections Canada incorporates cyber- and election security into its task of delivering an election, the changes to Canada’s elections laws in bill C-76 as they relate to foreign influence and the role of social media in elections, the n...

Apr 13, 2019•39 min

Ep 84 An INTREPID Podcast Special Part 3 -- Foreign Fighters and Counter Violent Extremism Interventions

Stephanie and Craig are very pleased to welcome Michael King to the show, for our oft-promised third episode in our study of foreign terrorist fighters. Our purpose in this series is to canvass the range of possible legal and policy responses to foreign fighter returnees. In episode 73 we walked through the facts on the ground in this area, with a focus on Canadians who affiliated with Daesh. In episode 74 we considered the international law issues around their detention in Syria by the Syrian D...

Apr 11, 2019•41 min

Ep 83 The INTREPID Crib Notes on Information Warfare and Countering Hybrid Threats

In the last week of March, just in time for exam season, Stephanie sat down in Ottawa with James Pamment, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University and a senior adviser to the Hybrid COE in Helsinki. James leads a small research team that provides training, scenario exercises, process and policy support to governments and international organizations in protection from election interference, disinformation and hybrid influence techniques. In this...

Apr 06, 2019•24 min

Ep 82 An INTREPID Podsight -- Mr Justice Richard Mosley of the Federal Court

Stephanie and Craig are honoured to welcome to the show Mr Justice Richard Mosley of the Federal Court. We spend a lot of time on INTREPID talking about the national security jurisprudence of the Federal Court. This was our opportunity to sit down with one of the most experienced and respected Federal Court “designated judges” (who hear security cases) to talk about what it is like to be a judge in the national security space. We start with a brief overview of Justice Mosley’s distinguished care...

Mar 29, 2019•42 min

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