Secret Service

For more than a century, Canadian governments have run spy operations, with undercover agents, secret sources, agents provocateurs, coded communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of deception and betrayal so familiar to aficionados of spy fiction. But instead of conducting such activities abroad, Canadian governments have done so at home, and usually against Canadian citizens... Why have Canadian governments been so fearful of 'enemies within,' when Canada's history suggests strongly that it is one of the most peaceful, well-ordered, uneventful countries in a turbulent world?