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Pack your bags, previously shadowy CSIS head Richard Fadden, you're coming to committee!

by Kady O'Malley Posted: June 29, 2010 3:26 PM Last Updated: June 29, 2010 4:33 PM
And the opposition parties didn't even have to file an SO 106(4) request for a meeting to discuss whether or not you should be called to appear!  According to the notice posted to the parliamentary website a few minutes ago, Fadden will brief the Public Safety committee on CSIS activities next Monday. 

Fadden may be scheduled to be there for just one day, but members may want to pack a change of clothes, since Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland also wants the committee to look into the federal role in G8/20 security, particularly given the "violence and large number of arrests on the streets of Toronto."  

Here, for the record, are his opening questions for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews: 

1.  Before the decision was made by your government to move the G20 summit to downtown Toronto, what security advice did the government consider?

2.  Why did your government ignore the advice of the City of Toronto to hold the G20 at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds, which would have been easier to secure and would have caused fewer disruptions to business?

3.  Who designed the G20 security plan?

4.  Who approved the security plan and the detailed expenditures for it?

5.  Who was ultimately giving security commands during the G20 summit?

6.  Did anyone on the political side get involved - directly or through PCO - in operational decisions during the summit?


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