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Annual Report 2008-2009 - Accountability in a New Era of Security Intelligence
Appendix A: List of Recommendations
During the 2008–2009 review period, SIRC made the following recommendations stemming from the range of reviews it conducted, as well as from the complaint it investigated.
| Case2 | SIRC recommended that… |
|---|---|
| CSIS's role in the matter of Omar Khadr | The Service should consider establishing a policy framework to guide its interactions with youth. As part of this, CSIS should ensure that such interactions are guided by the same principles that are entrenched in Canadian and international law. CSIS should implement measures to embed the values stemming from recent political, judicial and legal developments in its day-to-day work to maintain its own credibility, and to meet growing and evolving expectations of how an intelligence agency should operate and perform in a contemporary democratic society. Guidance and advice from the Minister of Public Safety on how to accomplish this task would be helpful. |
| CSIS activities at Canadian international airports | CSIS should support efforts that encourage greater collaboration between Service personnel to enhance their operational activities at Canadian airports. The Service should ensure that their disaster management plans include activities at airports, so that procedures are in place to better ensure that the essential services that they provide are not interrupted in the event that their offices are rendered inoperable. |
| A CSIS human source operation | CSIS should inform the Minister of Public Safety of the implications of the Anti-Terrorism Act as it relates to the Service’s human source program and any future related developments. |
| CSIS activities at a foreign station | CSIS should ensure there is a more consistent use of the accepted practice for exchanging information with foreign partners in which all messages go through the appropriate CSIS Foreign Station. |
| CSIS's investigation into domestic extremism | CSIS should take steps to develop stronger definitions and a better understanding of the multi-issue extremism environment. The objective should be to build a more effective model to isolate and identify indicators of activist extremism and their potential for violence. |
2 Consult the SIRC website at www.sirc-csars.gc.ca for a list of all SIRC review conducted since 1984.