DOES CANADA NEED A DEDICATED INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY?

Abstract

On November 13, 2023, Dr. John Gilmour presented Does Canada Need a Dedicated Intelligence Strategy? for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed were the magnitude of religiously motivated violent extremism as a global threat, the magnitude of domestic-based terrorism or ideologically motivated terrorism as a threat to North American state security, and the implications and increased likelihood for radicalization that may occur due to Canada’s response to global security conflicts, including the Israel-Hamas war.   Received: 12-11-2023 Revised: 01-26-2024