Morning Update: Diplomats sent to hot spots overstepped their authority, former CSIS director says

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Good morning, Richard Fadden, a former national security adviser who also once headed Canada’s spy service, says that during his time in government there were internal reports of diplomats with the Department of Global Affairs’ foreign-information gathering unit overstepping their authority. That puts the Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP), which sends diplomats to hot spots to collect security-related information for Ottawa, under a spotlight after accusations made by Michael Spavor, who was held prisoner in China for almost three years. Mr. Spavor alleges China arrested and imprisoned him and Michael Kovrig, a diplomat who worked for the GSRP, because he...