Geoffrey St. John is joined by Professor Wesley Wark, a Canadian Intelligence Historian, in the second installment of the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service Podcast. Professor Wark discusses reasonings for having a Foreign Intelligence Service, the debates behind it, and government proposals surrounding the topic.

Geoffrey St. John is Program Director for the National Security Studies Program (NSSP) at the Policy Insights Forum. Geoffrey served for nearly forty years in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the Department of National Defence (DND). Prior to his retirement from the military, he served as a senior member of the Canadian Armed Forces Intelligence Branch. He was responsible for the CAF imagery intelligence directorate, was director of transnational intelligence issues, and he was Chief of the Middle East / North Africa sections at National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ).

The PIF is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization of the Samuel Group of Companies, which engages Canada's best minds on public policy issues. The PIF will not take a position on whether Canada should or should not have a foreign intelligence service. This initiative aims to engage public policy discussion on strategic issues that affect Canada and the world. Policy Insights Forum: ⁠https://www.policysinsights.ca