The Special Allocation of Funds for Security and Intelligence Operations

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The Special Allocation of Funds for Security and Intelligence Operations

October 19, 2001

The Government of Canada announced today a special allocation of $47 million to two of Canada’s security and intelligence organizations: the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE).

These additional funds will strengthen the ability of the CSE and CSIS to provide timely and accurate information and analysis in support of the fight against terrorism in Canada and abroad.

CSIS is receiving an immediate allocation of $10 million so that it can invest in new technology and increase its investigative capacity. This includes technical upgrades such as the acquisition of computers, secure fax machines, high-speed fibre-optic modems, crypto units, collection systems and servers.

The CSE will receive $37-million to augment and retool existing systems and to accelerate planned projects as follows:

$6 million for support to research and development related to CSE's mandate;
$26 million for upgrades to information technology infrastructure capabilities to enhance processing and analysis; and
$5 million for the purchase of equipment for cyber threat and vulnerabilities identification.

The funds announced today will complement new legislative measures announced earlier this week to modernize Canadian legislation. The Anti-Terrorism Act will help combat terrorism by strengthening government's powers to investigate, prosecute and prevent terrorist acts.

These measures are an important part of the Government’s $280 million Anti-Terrorism Plan – a plan that brings to $1.8 billion the amount the Government of Canada has invested in policing, security and intelligence since Budget 2000.

The Government of Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Plan is designed to balance the need for increased security after the events of September 11 with safeguarding Canadian values. It has four objectives:

to stop terrorists from getting into Canada and protect Canadians from terrorist acts;
to bring forward tools to identify, prosecute, convict and punish terrorists;
to prevent the Canada-US border from being held hostage by terrorists and impacting on the Canadian economy; and
to work with the international community to bring terrorists to justice and address the root causes of such hatred.

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