The Canadian Branch Of The North American Security Surveillance State

Read it and weep, folks (emphasis added):

Canada’s little-known spy agency comes out into the open

At a time when most government agencies are cutting and slashing, a little-known spy agency led by a Rhodes Scholar is the envy of Ottawa for its planned billion-dollar headquarters.

A rising force in the national-security apparatus, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) is …