Overview
- Director Dan Rogers confirmed CSIS detected, investigated and disrupted multiple potentially lethal threats linked to Iranian intelligence and proxies targeting individuals in Canada.
- CSIS alerted Canadian firms that Europe-based front companies tied to Russian agents were seeking dual-use goods, leading companies to block the attempted acquisitions.
- Rogers said China and Russia show significant intelligence interest in Canada’s Arctic, with observed cyber and non-cyber collection and attempts to recruit Canadians with sensitive access.
- Nearly one in 10 CSIS terrorism investigations now involves at least one minor, and the agency reports disrupting roughly two dozen violent extremist actions since 2022.
- The agency is preparing to detect foreign information operations around possible provincial sovereignty referendums, and it continues to track transnational repression by states including China and India.