Secret Service : : Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America / / Gregory S. Kealey, Reg Whitaker, Andrew Parnaby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Whitaker, Reg,; Kealey, Gregory S.,; Parnaby, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (720 p.) :; 25 illustrations

Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations.Drawing on previously classified government records, the authors reveal that for over 150 years, Canada has run spy operations largely hidden from public or parliamentary scrutiny – complete with undercover agents, secret sources, agent provocateurs, coded communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of deception and betrayal so familiar to fans of spy fiction. As they argue, what makes Canada unique among Western countries is its insistent focus of its surveillance inwards, and usually against Canadian citizens.Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Political Policing in Canada -- Part One: Origins -- 1 The Empire Strikes Back -- 2 ‘You Drive Us Hindus out of Canada and We Will Drive Every White Man out of India!’ -- 3 A War on Two Fronts -- Part Two: Survival and Revival -- 4 The RCMP, the Communist Party, and the Consolidation of Canada’s Cold War -- 5 ‘Redder Than Ever’: Political Policing during the Great Depression -- 6 Keep the Home Fires Burning, 1939–45 -- Part Three: Cold War Canada -- 7 The Ice Age: Mounties on the Cold War Front Line, 1945–69 -- 8 The Coyote, the Roadrunner, and the Reds under the Bed: Communist Espionage and Subversion -- Part Four: Separatists, Scandals, and Reform -- 9 National Unity, National Security: The Quebec Conundrum, 1960–84 -- 10 ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going on in Here!’: The Creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service -- 11 Old Wine into New Bottles: CSIS, 1984–2001 -- Part Five: After the Twin Towers -- 12 After the Deluge: In the Shadow of the Twin Towers, 2001–11 -- 13 No More Mr Nice Spy: CSIS and the Dark Side of the War on Terror -- Conclusion: Policing Canadian Democracy -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index