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Work on better spy monitoring still underway four years after promise: feds

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 25 Feb, 2015 10:36 AM

    OTTAWA — The Conservative government says it is working on more comprehensive monitoring of Canadian intelligence agencies — more than four years after committing to do so.

    In December 2010, the government promised to allow the review of national security activities involving multiple departments and agencies.

    It also pledged to create an internal mechanism to ensure accountability and compliance with the laws and policies governing national security information-sharing.

    The commitments were included in the Harper government's response to a federal commission of inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing.

    Josee Sirois, a Public Safety Department spokeswoman, says the government is still developing options for inter-agency security review, adding she has no details on when it might be done.

    Opposition parties have criticized the government for not bolstering intelligence oversight in the anti-terrorism bill introduced last month — legislation that allows increased information sharing among federal security agencies.

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