Overview

• Cameron Ortis, a former senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force, was found guilty of breaching the country’s secrets law.
• Ortis was convicted of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of attempting to do so, along with breach of trust and fraudulent use of a computer.
• He was accused of revealing classified information to three individuals in 2015 and trying to do so in a fourth instance.
• Ortis testified that he offered secret material to targets in a bid to get them to use an online encryption service set up by an allied intelligence agency to spy on adversaries.
• The prosecution argued Ortis lacked authority to disclose classified material and that he was not doing so as part of a sanctioned undercover operation.