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The little-noticed internal audit of information technology security was completed last April and made public in July.
It called for several improvements to ensure the security and integrity of information at Public Safety, the umbrella department for the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Correctional Service and the Parole Board of Canada.
The report was completed seven months after the arrest of a director of an RCMP intelligence centre made international headlines.
Cameron Jay Ortis is charged under the Security of Information Act for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Bill Blair. (Flickr/ Province of British Columbia)
The federal government added 13 groups to its list of terrorist entities on Feb. 3, with four of them being white supremacists groups: Atomwaffen Division, The Base, The Proud Boys, and the Russian Imperial Movement. This brings the total number of entities on the list to 73.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the new addition of the groups is an important step to prevent ideology-based violence.
“These groups are unfortunately active in Canada and around the world […] fueled by white supremacy, antisemitism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia and misogyny,” said Blair in a public announcement.
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