BY INVITATION ONLY - 9/11 The Unfinished Battle, Book Launch and Greater National Security Discussion
OTTAWA, September 10th:
The RCMP Mess
5:30 to 8:00 Opening Remarks 6:15
9/11 The Unfinished Battle | Under Cover
Chatham House Rules
Featuring Optimum Authors Phil Gurski and Garry Clement
Publisher Dean Baxendale with be your MC and Matt Miller, from the Miller Group will host the Fireside Chat and Audience Q and A
Guests are invited to an interactive evening featuring two Canada’s most celebrated security and law enforcement authors.
The relationship between national security and continental economic security?· Canada’s credibility with the United States, Five Eyes and other allies.· Practical steps Canada must take to become a more capable and dependable security partner. Phil will provide perspectives from his experience at both the CSE and CSIS. Garry will address the RCMP, financial crime, organized crime and the federal security apparatus. The event will use the legacy of 9/11 as a starting point for a broader discussion about Canada’s national-security culture. The central argument is that Canada has allowed institutional knowledge, operational capacity and threat awareness to deteriorate while terrorism, foreign interference, transnational repression, organized crime and economic subversion have continued to evolve.
A possible overarching question now worth considering:
Is Canada still a meaningful contributor to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance—or is it at risk of being relegated to the sidelines?
Although Canada cannot formally be expelled from Five Eyes, participants warned that allies can restrict access to sensitive intelligence if Canada is viewed as a less reliable or largely non-contributing partner due to a lack of appetite to take on sensitive security issues that overlap diaspora politics and sympathies to terrorist, criminal or malign state statecraft within the Hybrid Warfare domain.
The gap between policy, planning and operational execution.· The growth of foreign interference, transnational repression and economic subversion continue to grow but our political response has been weak, often influenced by our adversaries and some ideological bias.
How does our Federal government understand national security ?
Terrorism and threat terror financing linked to Organized crime and Proxies of malign state actors.
Is it terrorism? Is it espionage? Is it Border and Arctic Is it Economic Security including military industrial supply chain resilience
Event format
Registration and Reception 5:30 to 6:10 Light food will be served and refreshments will be available.
Opening Remarks 6:15 to 6:45
Special Guests, Introduction to the authors, the topics and the books Garry Clement Phil Gursky followed by Matt Miller to introduce the Fireside Chat
Fireside Discussion 1 6:45 to 7:10 Jihadi Terrorism today’s threat environment
12 Minutes Q and A 12 Minutes
Fireside Discussion 2 Does Canada have a national security culture? 7:05 to 7:35
10 Minutes Q and A 20 Minutes
Closing Remarks, Mingle, Book Signing and engagement with authors.
Phil Gurski, PHd Author Phil Gurski, Former Senior CSIS analyst.
Garry Clement, Former Superintendent and Director of the Integrated Proceeds of Crime Div., RCMP
Mathew Miller, The Miller Group
MC, Dean Baxendale, Publisher, Optimum Publishing International
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