To understand the Canadian security and intelligence community requires clever navigation of the vacuum created by the general failure of Canadian government transparency. The vacuum has been sustained by the bewildering lack of interest in the subject of national security displayed by the Canadian academic community at large. The first effort made to publish a description of the Canadian intelligence community in some holistic way occurred two decades ago and took the shape of a meagre pamphlet produced by the Privy Council Office. Only in 2019 did we see a more useful update, produced in the first annual report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP).

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加拿大绝密：了解加拿大情报和国家安全社区

要了解加拿大安全和情报界，需要巧妙地驾驭加拿大政府透明度普遍失败所造成的真空。加拿大学术界普遍对国家安全主题缺乏兴趣，令人困惑地缺乏兴趣，从而持续了真空。以某种整体方式发布对加拿大情报界的描述的第一次努力发生在二十年前，并采取了枢密院办公室制作的简陋小册子的形式。直到 2019 年，我们才看到更有用的更新，该更新出现在国会议员国家安全和情报委员会 (NSICOP) 的第一份年度报告中。