If you're a researcher today wanting to research Canadian security state records somewhat expediently, you have to look at research that has already been done, because a historical request.... The CSIS archive and the RCMP security service archive are at LAC under volume RG146. These are a transfer of records from CSIS that they still have control over. All the records there are from previously released.... You can access a collection of previously released access to information packages, while you wait for your own access to information request to happen.
Those transfers happened in the 1990s. There used to be a CSIS reading room you could go to. I never went to it, because I was too young at that time.
In those access to information release packages that were processed in the 1990s, there are several redactions that tell a story of how CSIS was redacting and censoring documents then. They speak to the argument of LAC over-censorship, of the Office of the Information Commissioner over-censorship, both then and now, because even today, as—