Mr. Speaker, yesterday the federal government appointed a hard-liner to the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the person of Ward Elcock.
This morning, Canadian Press reported troubling comments from a former official of the Security Intelligence Review
Committee, Ron Atkey, who applauds Mr. Elcock's appointment, stating that he is "a man with a firm grip with troubled times laying ahead in various parts of the country, and particularly in Quebec".
Thinking back to the questionable schemes cooked up by the federal secret services in days gone by, or so we thought, one can wonder whether the good old Liberal era when such a close eye was being kept on Quebec leaders are not making their way back.