CSIS releases weekly intelligence briefs, but they don't tell us who the sources are, what they're about, or who they're working with. In this episode, we read through them and try to figure out who the source is.
00:00:00.000Do you remember about 23, 24, the legacy media told us that protesting against gender ideology
00:00:06.260was potentially an act of extremism? So I filed an access to information request. I wanted to
00:00:12.120review the evidence held within CSIS. And a year later, here it is. Reading through what appears
00:00:19.740to be weekly intelligence briefs, as you can see, became clear to me that our spy agency
00:00:25.120is leaning heavily on unnamed, what they're calling subscription-based open sources,
00:00:31.480and media reports to assess pride-related threats. Now, these assessments specified that, quote,
00:00:39.140anti-DEI and other anti-woke narratives were a concern to them, evidence that they say came from
00:00:45.980unnamed 2SLGBTQIA plus advocates, who said, quote, would embolden extreme perspectives.
00:00:54.020The problem is that each stated thread came with a caveat that CSIS ultimately found no evidence that any anti-Walk or anti-DEI criticism, including criticism of the trans lobby, had inspired violent extremist acts at all.
00:01:11.840CESA said that the open source intelligence they receive
00:01:14.180examined more than 2,800 internet memes
00:01:17.920shared over 100 Canadian social media accounts
00:01:20.940and that about one third of those memes
00:01:23.200had targeted transgender people specifically.