There Is No Such Thing As National Security In Canada

Reading about this, one cannot convince me otherwise:

The arrest of a senior RCMP official was the fruit of a 2018 international police operation that targeted the encrypted communications service Phantom Secure, sources have told Global News.

An outfit that sold untraceable smartphones to criminals so they could evade police, Phantom Secure was dismantled last year by authorities in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

The arrest of Phantom Secure CEO Vincent Ramos in Washington State in March 2018 led police to sensitive RCMP information that had been offered up for sale, according to the sources.

While Ramos did not know the identity of the person allegedly brokering the RCMP information, Canadian investigators traced it to a list of suspects who had access to it, the sources said.
On Thursday, the RCMP arrested one of its own at the national headquarters building near Ottawa. 

Cameron Ortis faces seven charges, including obtaining information to pass to a “foreign entity.”

Ortis was director general of the National Intelligence Coordination Centre. During 12 years as a civilian member of the RCMP, he had worked in Operations Research and National Security Criminal Investigations.

“By virtue of the positions he held, Mr. Ortis had access to information the Canadian intelligence community possessed. He also had access to intelligence coming from our allies both domestically and internationally,” RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said Monday.

The charges have “shaken many people throughout the RCMP,” she said in a statement, adding the police force was “assessing the impacts of the alleged activities as information becomes available.”

This Cameron Otis:

Cameron Ortis, director general of the RCMP's national intelligence coordination centre, was arrested late last week and charged with preparing to share either safeguarded or operational information with a foreign entity or terrorist group in the past year.

He's also charged under the rarely-used Security of Information Act with communicating special operational information back in 2015 and faces two Criminal Code charges.

"By virtue of the positions he held, Mr. Ortis had access to information the Canadian intelligence community possessed. He also had access to intelligence coming from our allies both domestically and internationally," said Lucki in a statement Monday, confirming reports Friday and over the weekend describing the work Ortis did.

"While these allegations, if proven true, are extremely unsettling, Canadians and our law enforcement partners can trust that our priority continues to be the integrity of the investigations and the safety and security of the public we serve."

(Sidebar: bullsh--. The Americans tipped you off. You weren't even paying attention.)

How does someone like that fly under the radar for so long?

For the same reason that Pierre Trudeau could go to the former Soviet Union and communist China and not land in prison. For the same reason that Sikh extremists could bomb an aircraft, get away with the crime and still operate in Canada today. For the same reason that Iran could have properties in Canada. For the same reason the current prime minister could profess his love for China, whose de facto telecommunications wing, Huawei, pushes for a 5G network and whose citizens in various professional capacities could operate freely before red flags shot up.

That's how.