Garry Clement: Foreign actors see Canada as the lane of least resistance

Garry Clement: Foreign actors see Canada as the lane of least resistance

For years Canada seemed to be the more peaceful part of North America. But that narrative is changing.


Recently a Toronto police officer was shot while investigating a series of shootings in the city, including one that took place at the city’s US Consulate. The death of Constable Marc Pinizzotto is a tragedy. But it is also a warning.

The lines between organized crime, foreign interference, terrorist financing, money laundering, gang violence, and hostile state activity are becoming increasingly blurred.

For decades, Canadians have tended to view these challenges as separate issues. But what happens when criminal organizations, foreign states, financial networks, and violent proxies all begin operating in the same ecosystem?

What are these converging threats? Why do they matter? And is Canada ready to confront them?

To answer these questions Inside Policy Talks welcomes Garry Clement, former national director of the RCMP’s proceeds of crime program. He’s also the author of several books, including “Under Cover: Inside the Shady World of Organized Crime and the R.C.M.P.”.

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Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs

Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs

Critics of DEI have long warned that demographic-based hiring requirements can come at the expense of merit and academic excellence. In a recent MLI paper, The equity excellence trade-off: A study of ...

4 Syys 57min

Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline

Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline

Canada's dairy industry is one of the most protected sectors of the Canadian economy. But is that protection holding the industry back?While Canada's dairy sector has long benefited from policies desi...

21 Elo 52min

Lt.-Col. Joel Maley: Deterrence is cheaper than defence

Lt.-Col. Joel Maley: Deterrence is cheaper than defence

Latvia is home to Canada's largest overseas military deployment, with more than 2,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces serving on NATO's eastern flank.Why are Canadians there? Why should Canadians...

14 Elo 50min

Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton: Canadian judges ran amok with the Charter

Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton: Canadian judges ran amok with the Charter

Special episode: Peter Copeland, acting director of domestic policy at MLI, sat down last month with eminent Canadian political scientists Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton. 25 years ago Morton and Knopff'...

6 Elo 1h 2min

Carl Trueman: Euthanasia, transgenderism, and transgression

Carl Trueman: Euthanasia, transgenderism, and transgression

By almost every material measure life has become safer, richer, and more convenient... so why do many people seem more anxious, lonely, and unhappy?We often explain this malaise in economic or psychol...

30 Heinä 1h 4min

Rob Henderson: Stigma and expectations will make your life better

Rob Henderson: Stigma and expectations will make your life better

For young men, there used to be “a ton of societal pressure on you to make something of yourself.” That’s one of many positive culture norms that we’ve now lost, says author Rob Henderson.Today, “some...

16 Heinä 1h 1min

Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals

Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals

Canada’s judges have become “completely divorced from reality” in the reasoning they use to bat down mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes, says Christine Van Geyn, interim executive director...

9 Heinä 49min

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